Son of temperance – Antique Wall Art
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Son of temperance. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Son of Temperance" takes its name from the Sons of Temperance, a fraternal order founded in New York in 1842 that bound its members to abstain from alcohol and support one another. Nathaniel Currier published this hand-colored lithograph around 1848, when the temperance movement was gaining wide popularity and supporters wanted images to display at home and at lodge meetings. Currier's firm issued many such prints during the 1840s, turning organizational causes into affordable, colorful pictures for a broad public. The title and the movement behind it are the best guides to the print's purpose.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1848. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand-colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 6013 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 941 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109939 |
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