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A chicken, [approximately 1860]
- Title(s):
- A chicken.
- Published/Created:
- [Great Britain] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1860]
- Physical Description:
- 1 print : lithograph ; 26 x 20 cm
- Holdings:
- Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/11676265
- Classification:
- Prints
- Notes:
- Valentine with image of a chicken dressed in women's clothes and a cupid aiming a bow and arrow at her. In the background are a couple dancing. Poem printed at bottom. One sheet mounted.
"Pray pretty Miss Bantam dont be chicken hearts/Twod'd be a foul deed, you and I should be parted/I'm a natty young farmer, like you, got a crop/So good that the question this year I may pop/ And I'll lay a nice egg now, that you now will inclined to be my sweet chick and my own Valentine". - Subject Terms:
- Chickens.Cupid (Roman deity)Cupids.Dancing.Valentines -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
- Form/Genre:
- Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860.
Ephemera.
Valentines. - Export:
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