The tree of temperance – Vintage Print
(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 tree of temperance
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The title sets this print apart from the board's other religious images: "The Tree of Temperance" turns sobriety into a botanical allegory, with a tree standing in for the moral life the viewer is urged to cultivate. Nathaniel Currier published it in New York around 1849, when the temperance movement was reaching a broad audience through pledges, societies, and cheap printed images. Like many Currier lithographs of the period, this copy was colored by hand, a finishing step that varied from sheet to sheet, so surviving impressions can differ noticeably in tone. It shows how Currier turned a reform cause into affordable images for ordinary households.
| Created / published | New York : Published by N. Currier, c1849. |
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| 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. 6622 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,189 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-175186 |
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