| Title |
Wearing the Breeches. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : J. Wrigley Publisher, 27 Chatham Street, N.Y. |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A woman runs and wears breeches underneath her dress. A man runs away from her. |
| Notes |
Text: That a woman's rule is ofttimes good, / This, firm experience teaches, / But it really seems to reach extremes, / When
she tries to wear the breeches.
|
|
Cf. Valentine 12.36. |
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
Man-woman relationships -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
American wit and humor. |
|
Gender roles. |
|
Gender transgression. |
|
Queer history. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.588.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 12.37 |