The progress of intemperance: plate V. the expectant wife – 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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This rare antique lithograph captures The progress of intemperance: plate V. the expectant wife in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The progress of intemperance: plate V. the expectant wife
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The fifth plate in Nathaniel Currier's series *The Progress of Intemperance* turns to an expectant wife, using her vulnerable position to show what a husband's drinking costs a household. Currier issued the lithograph in New York around 1841, when the Washingtonian movement, which began in Baltimore in 1840, had drawn large crowds of reformed drinkers and made temperance a popular cause. Inexpensive lithographs like this one carried the temperance message into parlors and kitchens that might never have heard a lecture.
| 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. 5376 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,151 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109936 |
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