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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.
Voting period is over. Please don't add any new votes. Voting period ends on 10 Jun 2010 at 23:56:37 (UTC). Original - A lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement by showing the stages of alcoholism.
The etchings depict a family brought to ruin by alcohol. It was inspired by William Hogarth's' Rake's Progress. The Bottle was very popular, selling 100,000 copies within days of its first printing, and was adapted into several plays and a novel. [1] It was followed by a sequel, The Drunkard's Children (1848), consisting of another eight plates.
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 ...
Currier & Ives are best known as creators of popular art prints, such as Christmas scenes, landscapes, or depictions of Victorian urban sophistication; however, the firm also produced political cartoons and banners, significant historical scenes, and further illustrations of current events. Over the decades, the firm created roughly 7,500 images.
The following is a list of comic strips.Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the termination date is sometimes uncertain.
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.
The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved is an American temperance play first performed on February 12, 1844. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] A drama in five acts, it was perhaps the most popular play produced in the United States until the dramatization of Uncle Tom's Cabin [ 3 ] premiered in 1853.