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Title The Conceited Woman.
Publisher [New York : J. Wrigley]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman wears an elaborate crinoline, shawl and wide-brimmed hat. The hat partially conceals a sheep's head. The valentine suggests a person who does not dress age-appropriately is deceitful. Hecate is a Greek goddess assocaited with magic and crossroads, and is often represented as a hag or a crone.
Notes Text: There we see an old ewe, yet more like a ram, / Though a fifty-year old, she’s dressed like a lamb, / Both toothless and ugly, and snafty and base, / Yet she tries to look sheepish, and soft in the face. / Dress on, Mother Hecate, your stiff crinoline, / Floats flauntingly free, abroad in the wind, / But the looks that you give, and the fashions you wear, / Bids all of good sense and of manners beware.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Aging -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Deception -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Clothing and dress -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 14.28