[Drunk driver and figure of death] – Vintage Print
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(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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[Drunk driver and figure of death] comes to life in this historic drawing, 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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[Drunk driver and figure of death]
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A pen-and-ink drawing, worked over pencil and heightened with white, pairs a drunk driver with the Grim Reaper, a figure long used to stand for death. The sheet is undated, but its catalog range places it somewhere between the early 1930s and the mid-1950s, a period when automobiles became common in American life and traffic deaths drew growing public concern. Safety campaigns of those decades often used blunt, sometimes grotesque imagery like this to link drinking with the road and to warn that a single bad decision behind the wheel could be fatal.
| Medium | 1 drawing : India ink over pencil, with opaque white on bristol board ; 24.0 x 50.7 cm. (sheet) |
|---|---|
| Notes | [between ca. 1933 and 1956] |
| Subjects | Grim Reaper (Symbolic character)--1930-1960. Drunk driving--1930-1960. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 674 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-156224 |
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