LevelItem
Ref NoEHS/G/13/373
Alt Ref NoO/2365
Title[Victorian woman on knees pleading with a coy Victorian man; contemporary young woman chasing and grabbing the coat of a contemporary young man]
Date[29 Feb 1956]
Extent1 drawing
DescriptionThe context is the folk tradition of women proposing marriage on Leap Day [akin to "Sadie Hawkins" dances]. Annotations and/or printers' instructions [partly obscured by mount] in unknown handwriting in the margins: one lower right [possibly in Shepard's] gives the date.
CategoryIllustrations
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