| Title |
Butcher. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : N.Y. Union Valentine Co., No. 134 Williams St., N.Y. |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
Above his head, the butcher's words appear: "I'll take the last of your 'sacred nine' Mews!!" He holds a meat cleaver and
a cat. He stands in front of a butcher's block; sausages and hams hang behind him. He has a large waistline and wears an apron.
The valentine mocks butchers' dishonesty, violence, and gluttony.
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| Notes |
Text: The butcher is a jolly dog, / Gets saucy as he grows fat, / Makes "choice round" of horse's meat, / And "chain sausage"
out of cat. / I'd marry a butcher, that I would, / If I could only be sure, / He wouldn't butcher his Valentine / And sell
her as sugar cure.
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| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Butchers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
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Cats -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Gluttony -- Caricatuares and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.66.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 2.16 |
