Details
Title Although you drive a Hansom, a handsome driver you are not,
Publisher [S.l.: s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description The carriage driver has a large nose, a beard and curly hair. He holds a horse whip and a woman watches him from a window in the background. "Shoful" is slang for questionable.
Notes Text: Although you drive a Hansom, a handsome driver you are not, / For your looks are very "shoful," and your's is a shabby lot; / So drive away dear Cabby, and don't cast sheep's eyes at me, For I like a smarter chap than you -- your "fair" I'll never be
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Carriages -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Is part of William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
Provenance Helfand, William H.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 14.3 [P.2007.42.3]