The progress of intemperance: plate IV. the ruined family – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This antique lithograph of The progress of intemperance: plate IV. the ruined family brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The progress of intemperance: plate IV. the ruined family
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Plate IV of *The Progress of Intemperance* turns from the tavern to the household, showing the drinker's ruin reaching his wife and children. Nathaniel Currier published the series from New York around 1841, a time when the temperance movement was gaining strength, and the Washingtonian pledge movement that began in Baltimore in 1840 was drawing large crowds of reformed drinkers. Currier's inexpensive lithographs were meant to be read as moral lessons, so the scene's crowded misery works as a sermon as much as a picture. It is worth viewing alongside the earlier plates to see how the story unfolds.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1841. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph. |
| Genre | Lithographs 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 5375 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,238 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109935 |
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