| Title |
Cold Comfort--Ice Cream. |
| Publisher |
[S.l. : s.n.] |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
Having fallen while ice skating, a woman sits on the ice with her crinoline and petticoats revealed. She gestures toward a
sign which reads "ice cream." The punning text misconstrues her interest in ice cream as a statement regarding her predicament
on the ice. The border shows cupids and hearts; one cupid shoots a heart out of a thimble cannon labeled "Love"; another cupid
travels with a heart in a hot-air balloon; and another cupid hammers at a cracked heart below a heart on a fishhook labeled
"Caught."
|
| Notes |
Text: You shiver and howl-- to move you dread, / You're game for all deriders, / Your balance gone and your thin legs spread,
/ Like a pair of drunk dividers. / "I scream!" you shriek in anguish'd tone, / A more summary plan you require; / Take off
your skates and stay at home, / Knit stockings in front of the fire.
|
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Ice Skating -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Crinolines -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Women athletes -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Exhibitionism -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Ice cream, ices, etc. -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.85.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 2.35 |
