The progress of intemperance: plate I. the invitation to drink – Historic Reproduction
(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 progress of intemperance: plate I. the invitation to drink comes to life in this antique lithograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The progress of intemperance: plate I. the invitation to drink
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Plate I of Currier's temperance series begins the story with temptation rather than its consequences: the invitation to drink, the first step on a road the later plates follow to ruin. Nathaniel Currier, then a young New York publisher, sold such lithographs cheaply to a broad public at a time when temperance reform was gaining real popular momentum, including the Washingtonian movement that began in 1840. Prints like this made the moral argument for abstinence concrete in everyday scenes that ordinary buyers could hang on their walls, which is much of their interest to historians today.
| 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. 5372 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,225 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109820 |
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