The Bible and temperance – Vintage Print
![The Bible and temperance, [New York] : N. Currier, [between 1835 and 1856] — antique lithograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/80/807348b675b7-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. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Bible and temperance
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Among the religious prints on this board, this one stands out for its pairing of scripture with a reform cause, setting the Bible beside the temperance movement. Nathaniel Currier issued the lithograph in New York sometime between 1835 and 1856, a period when temperance grew into a broad network of churches, local societies and pledge signers. Hand coloring, usually added by workers after printing, was common on Currier's sheets and kept them inexpensive enough for homes and meeting rooms. The print shows how evangelical reformers used popular imagery to argue that sobriety and scripture belonged together.
| 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. 0579. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,440 × 1,131 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217279 |
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