You dashing, dressy Bar-keeper, for a dandy you would pass, American wit and humor. Dandies -- Caricatures and cartoons. Bartenders -- Caricatures and cartoons. Intellect -- Caricatures and cartoons. The bar-keeper stands at a bar and pours liquor from one glass into another. Decanters and glasses are on the bar. Text: You dashing, dressy Bar-keerp, for a dandy you would pass, / As with the most exquisite grace you handle well your glass; / But your brains are like your liquors, the more they are display'd / The more they show the frothy stuff of which they are made. Cf. Valentine 11.3. "73" Provenance: McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. [New York] : T.W. Strong, New-York. [between 1840 and 1880?] Caricatures and cartoons. Comic valentines. digitool:6305 Comic Valentines, 13.17