Daughter of temperance: Virtue, love and temperance – Vintage Print
![Daughter of temperance: Virtue, love and temperance, [New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4e/4e336376d4a9-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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Step back in time with Daughter of temperance: Virtue, love and temperance, an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Daughter of temperance: Virtue, love and temperance
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Virtue and love are joined under the figure of a temperance daughter in this hand-colored lithograph, a pairing that ties moral reform to courtship. Nathaniel Currier issued it from New York before his partnership with James Ives began in 1857, a period when the temperance movement was gaining support among Protestant churches and families. Prints like this were inexpensive enough for parlor walls, and hand coloring means that copies differ slightly in tone. Its place on a Valentine's Day board reflects how sentimental allegories like this one were often exchanged as tokens of affection.
| Created / published | [New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1830-1860. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1578. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,075 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174728 |
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