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Although you drive a Hansom, a handsome driver you are not,
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William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
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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]
In Collections
William H. Helfand Comic Valentine Collection
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