The Bible and temperance – Antique Print
![The Bible and temperance, [New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/49/4959effc010b-L.webp)
(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 Bible and temperance, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Nathaniel Currier's hand-colored lithograph *The Bible and temperance* ties the scriptural text to the antebellum temperance cause, a title that signals its moral purpose before any detail of the scene is read. The print bears only Currier's name as publisher, which places it before the firm became Currier & Ives in 1857. Temperance societies had spread widely since the American Temperance Society was founded in 1826, and printmakers like Currier produced many sermonizing images for a churchgoing middle-class market. Prints of this kind show how reform arguments reached ordinary households.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand col. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 0580. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,097 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174139 |
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