Goddess of the fries and stews,
American wit and humor.
Cooks -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Courtship -- Caricatures and cartoons.
Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) -- Caricatures and cartoons.
A cook wearing a bonnet holds a pot on a stove. She has a long pointed nose. The Valentine suggests she is too ugly to find love.
Text: Goddess of the fries and stews, / To court the male sex ‘tis no use; / Your nose I’m sure is only fit / To make a kitchen roasting spit; / Then cut your foolish ways, pray do, / I’ll ne’er have a Valentine like you.
Signed: Pickering.
Provenance: Helfand, William H..
[London : Lloyd]
[between 1840 and 1880?]
Caricatures and cartoons.
Comic valentines.
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Comic Valentines, 14.46