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Title Botch Sign Painter.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A man is painting a sign with a large brush. The sign is untidily painted and the man is spilling paint from the pan he holds. This, combined with the pipe he is smoking and the patches on his pants, suggest his work is generally slipshod.
Notes Text: You wretched, worthless bungler, to see you try to paint, / I'm sure would spoil the temper of even a first-class saint, / For you cannot lay a color, and the letters you design, / Look like a lot of scare-crows drawn up in a line ; / You're a dirty, mussy dauber, without a bit of taste, / And a building with a sign of yours is thoroughly defaced.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Painters -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Laziness -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 14.18