Details
Title Don't strike and thump him, baby Dick.
Publisher [S.l. : s.n.]
Date [between 1840 and 1880?]
Description The valentine shows a tall, thin man kneeling as he holds a baby. He prepares food on a spider pan over a candle. The valentine suggests that the man is weak and child-like, and his wife is an abuser of both him and the baby.
Notes Text: Don't strike and thump him, baby Dick, / Leave 'ma to hit him many a lick; / 'Tis her he fears, not you, who squall, / He trembles so, he'll let you fall -- / Poor, shivering, nussing skeleton, / With cuffs for teaching, when he's done.
Genre Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
Subject American wit and humor.
Child care -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Child abuse -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Kitchen utensils -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Masculinity -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Women -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Has format TMP.objres.126.jpg
Provenance McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.
Identifier Comic Valentines, 3.26