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The Drunkard's Progress: From the First Glass to the Grave is an 1846 lithograph by Nathaniel Currier. It is a nine-step lebenstreppe on a stone arch depicting a man's journey through alcoholism . Through a series of vignettes it shows how a single drink starts an arc that ends in suicide.
Currier and Ives was a New York City-based printmaking business operating from 1835 to 1907. Founded by Nathaniel Currier , the company designed and sold inexpensive hand-painted lithographic works based on news events, views of popular culture and Americana .
Currier married Eliza West Farnsworth in 1840. [4] The couple had one child, Edward West Currier, the next year. [5] Eliza died in 1843. [4] In 1847, Currier married Lura Ormsbee. In addition to being a lithographer, he was also a New York City volunteer fireman in the 1850s. He was a Unitarian. Currier was a friend of P.T. Barnum of Barnum and ...
The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.. In the United States, the temperance movement, which sought to curb the consumption of alcohol, had a large influence on American politics and American society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, culminating in the prohibition of alcohol, through the Eighteenth Amendment to the ...
English: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement. Cleaned up slightly using the GIMP. Step 1: A glass with a friend. Step 2: A glass to keep the cold out. Step 3: A glass too much. Step 4: Drunk and riotous. Step 5: The summit attained. Jolly companions, a confirmed drunkard. Step 6: Poverty and Disease.
The Drunkard's Progress: A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement, January 1846.. The World League Against Alcoholism (WLAA) was organized by the Anti-Saloon League, whose goal became establishing prohibition not only in the United States but throughout the entire world.
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The Drunkard's Progress (1846) by Nathaniel Currier warns that moderate drinking may lead to suicide step-by-step.. The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages.