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Title With a fine hat and a painted face,
Publisher [London : J. T. Wood]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman wears a large hoop skirt, a cape, and a feathered hat, and carries a parasol and small bag. The sender suggests that such attention to appearances will not make up for the recipient's personal defects.
Notes Text: With a fine hat and painted face, / Leading a life of gay disgrace, / Don’t think that wearing such a hat, / Will aid you to catch a flat, / Your false hair is nicely braided, / Your infamy well paraded.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Clothing and dress -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 17.1