![[Vinegar Valentine.] No use on me to spend your smiles, / I really must resist your wiles; /](jpegs/7065.jpg)
[Vinegar Valentine.] No use on me to spend your smiles, / I really must resist your wiles; /It may be rude but I decline / A Girl of such a public line, / Barmaids who'll flirt with any spoon / Will bring a man to sorrow soon.
[n.d., c.1870.]
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
A bottle-nosed drinker rejecting the advances of a barmaid with a body of a bottle & cask. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7065] £75.00
Colour-printed wood engraving, image 205 x 130mm, on a folded sheet. [Image with light reflection from gum arabic.]
A bottle-nosed drinker rejecting the advances of a barmaid with a body of a bottle & cask. Vinegar Valentines are rather unflattering and often insulting; some addressed to trades and professions, perhaps given to customers to their suppliers, rather than true valentines.
[Ref: 7065] £75.00