Cold Comfort--Ice Cream.

Cold Comfort--Ice Cream.

[between 1840 and 1880?]

Having fallen while ice skating, a woman sits on the ice with her crinoline and petticoats revealed. She gestures toward a sign which reads "ice cream." The punning text misconstrues her interest in ice cream as a statement regarding her predicament on the ice. The border shows cupids and hearts; one cupid shoots a heart out of a thimble cannon labeled "Love"; another cupid travels with a heart in a hot-air balloon; and another cupid hammers at a cracked heart below a heart on a fishhook labeled "Caught."; Text: You shiver and howl-- to move you dread, / You're game for all deriders, / Your balance gone and your thin legs spread, / Like a pair of drunk dividers. / "I scream!" you shriek in anguish'd tone, / A more summary plan you require; / Take off your skates and stay at home, / Knit stockings in front of the fire.; McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector.

Caricatures and cartoons

Comic valentines

American wit and humor

Ice Skating -- Caricatures and cartoons

Crinolines -- Caricatures and cartoons

Women athletes -- Caricatures and cartoons

Exhibitionism -- Caricatures and cartoons

Ice cream, ices, etc. -- Caricatures and cartoons

Women -- Caricatures and cartoons

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