| Title |
Caught Him at Last. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
A bride is depicted as a cat, and the groom as a rat. The bride holds an envelope marked "Mr. & Mrs." Both are dressed formally;
he wears a top-hat, and she wears a gown with a hoop skirt and a bonnet. The border features matches, a heart-shaped beet,
and cherubs playing tennis and tug o' war. The label on the matchbox reads "Red-headed matches go off easy," and the beet
is marked "D.B." [i.e. "dead beat" or "dead beet"].
|
| Notes |
Text: Pussy, when the rat she catches, / Smooths him down with velvet paw, / Then for change his hide she scratches / With
her curved relentless claw. / So it is in wedlock's matches, / Beauty leads us like a straw, / Till she's got us "under hatches"
-- / Then look out for Pussy's law!
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Domestic relations -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Marriage -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.75.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 2.25 |
