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Title Poor widow wooding for the loss,
Publisher [London: J.T. Wood, 278, 279, Strand,
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description A woman in a black dress sits at a table. She holds a handkerchief to her eyes and is crying. There is an open bottle and a glass on the table and "Gammon" is written on the wall behind her. Gammon means nonsense and suggests that her grief is insincere.
Notes Text: Poor widow wooding for the loss, / Of one you’ll ne’er forget / And yet the thought my mind will cross, / That you are TO BE LET. / But in you no charm I see, / And therefore frankly own, / That all the chance you have with me, / Is to be LET alone.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Grief -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Truthfulness and falsehood -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Widows -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Remarriage -- Caricatures and cartoons.
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Provenance Helfand, William H..
Identifier Comic Valentines, 16.1