Details
Title Alas, poor man, thy suit of plush,
Publisher [London] : J.T. Wood, 278 & 279, Strand.
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A jockey stands at a bar drinking from a beer tankard with a dog standing attentively at his side. In the background, a bartender stands behind the bar across from a woman who grins and holds a glass.
Notes Text: Alas, poor man, thy suit of plush, / Has fairly turned thy brain I ween, / But if thou art a man, Oh! blush, / To be a thing so very mean, / Oh! Jockey of the spotless clothes, / Oh! Jockey of the gundy plush, / Oh! Jockey with the turn up nose, / I pity thee and for thee blush.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Drinking of alcoholic beverages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Jockeys -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Is part of William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
Provenance Helfand, William H.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 14.2 [P.2007.42.2]