Title:
A chicken.
Published / Created:

[Great Britain] : [publisher not identified], [approximately 1860]

Physical Description:
1 print : lithograph ; 26 x 20 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1866.V3 C45 1860 Box
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
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:
Valentines -- Great Britain -- 19th century. | Cupid (Roman deity) | Chickens. | Dancing. | Cupids.
Form/Genre:
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1860. | Ephemera. | Valentines.