The fruits of temperance – Vintage 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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The fruits of temperance comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. 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 fruits of temperance
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Temperance was a popular theme for American printmakers in the 1840s, when the movement against liquor drew large numbers of families into its cause. *The Fruits of Temperance*, published in New York by J.B. Allen around 1848, is a hand-colored lithograph, a medium that let publishers produce affordable images for a broad public. It is listed in the Currier & Ives catalog raisonné, which places it among the moral and genre prints the period's firms sold in quantity. Hand coloring was often done by workers in shared studios, so surviving copies can differ in tone.
| Created / published | New York : Published by J.B. Allen, 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. 2372 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,128 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-174491 |
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