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Faith, hope, charity. Inebriate's express / N.Y. Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Co., New York. – Antique Wall Art

Faith, hope, charity. Inebriate's express / N.Y. Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Co., New York., c1870. — antique lithograph
Faith, hope, charity. Inebriate's express / N.Y. Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Co., New York., c1870.. Antique lithograph from the New York City collection.

(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: Faith, hope, charity. Inebriate's express / N.Y. Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Co., New York., preserved in this antique lithograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Faith, hope, charity. Inebriate's express / N.Y. Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Co., New York.

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The particular feature here is the pairing of a railroad image with three winged figures labeled Faith, Hope, and Charity. The title "Inebriate's Express" uses the vocabulary of the railroads, which were then the newest and most powerful form of transport, to frame drinking as a journey toward ruin. The virtues above it offer the counterpoint: a route away from that destination. Color lithographs like this one circulated widely in the 1870s, when temperance societies and reform writers used popular prints to make moral arguments to ordinary households. The New York firm that printed it was one of several commercial houses producing such work for the American market.

Created / publishedc1870.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreLithographs Color 1870.
NotesCopyright by Mrs. Geo. D. Hyde.
SubjectsTemperance--United States--1870. Angels--1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,458 × 1,156 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216806

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