| Title |
The Miser. |
| Publisher |
[New York] : H. De Marsan, Publisher of songs and ballads, Toy-books, &c. 54 Chatham Str. N.Y. |
| Date |
[between 1840 and 1880?] |
| Description |
The miser holds a fork with a fish on it over a fire. Next to the fire are a small sauce pan and toasting fork. A cat stands
behind the chair.
|
| Notes |
Mean, snivelling, sneaking, garret-bred, / Cat-lick'd, and shotten-herring-fed: / What right can such a thing as you / Presume
a woman's love to woo? / Starve where you may, this picture see, / Poor drivelling knave, you don't starve me.
|
|
Cf. Valentine 10.27. |
| Genre |
Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Comic valentines. |
| Subject |
American wit and humor. |
|
Misers -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
|
Kitchen utensils -- Caricatures and cartoons. |
| Has format |
TMP.objres.281.jpg |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
|
De Marsan, H. (Henry), publisher. |
| Identifier |
Comic Valentines, 6.31 |
