Flower of Your Sex. American wit and humor. Women -- Caricatures and cartoons. Aging -- Caricatures and cartoons. Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Caricatures and cartoons. A large-nosed woman wears a large gown with petal-like furbelows. She holds a nosegay and walks a small dog. Text: The flower of your sex; O! yes indeed! / A flower already gone to seed, / And yet I will be prompt to say, / That you display a real nosegay. Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. [S.l. : s.n.] [between 1840 and 1880?] Caricatures and cartoons. Comic valentines. digitool:5789 Comic Valentines, 4.7