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.
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Comic Valentines, 13.17