The tree of intemperance – Antique Print
(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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A window into the past: The tree of intemperance, preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The Tree of Intemperance is a hand-colored lithograph published by Nathaniel Currier in New York in 1849, when temperance was one of the most visible reform causes in American life. Its allegorical design shows a tree whose fruit and branches stand for the ruin that drink brought to families and communities, a common device in temperance art of the period. Currier, who ran a busy lithography shop and sold cheap prints to a broad public, used such moral scenes to reach ordinary households as well as the reform societies that promoted them. The print is catalogued in the Gale Research Currier & Ives catalog raisonné as number 6614.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, 1849. |
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| 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. 6614 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,180 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175183 |
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