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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.
The lithograph was drawn in January 1846 to support the growing anti-alcoholism sentiment which culminated in the United States with the passage of the 18th amendment to the United States Constitution, which outlawed the manufacture, transportation and sale of all alcoholic beverage within the United States.
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.
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 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 total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages.
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 ...
Lithographs — a type of art print using lithography, a method of printing using a stone or a metal plate with a smooth surface. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
The Drunkard's Progress, lithograph by Nathaniel Currier supporting the temperance movement. Arthur Huntingdon and most of his male friends are heavy drinkers. Lord Lowborough is "the drunkard by necessity" – he tries to use alcohol as a way to cope with his personal problems.