| Title |
The Widower. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : H. De Marsan, Publisher of songs, 54 Chatham Street, New-York. |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A man in a black suit smirks and holds a flower over a grave with an unmarked gravestone. Two woman stand behind him. |
| Notes |
Text: Vain pretender, put off thy badge of woe; / For, well we know, if you were only able / To cach [i.e. catch] a wife,
the funeral baked meats / Would coldly furnish forth the marriage table.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Widowers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Grief -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Remarriage -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.603.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 13.2 |
