Drunkards Progress, 1846

Entitled: "The drunkards progress. From the first glass to the grave." Shows an archway of the nine steps of a drunkard's progress, beginning with a man in fancy dress having "a glass with a friend" and then his gradual decline in society with poverty & disease, criminal activity, becoming a bum, and his eventual "death by suicide"; a weeping woman with child is under archway. The temperance movement began in the early 19th century (around the 1820s). Before this, although there were diatribes published against drunkenness and excess, total abstinence from alcohol (teetotalism) was very rarely advocated or practiced. There was also a concentration on hard spirits rather than on abstinence from alcohol and on moral reform rather than legal measures against alcohol. During the Victorian period, the temperance movement became more radical, advocating the legal prohibition of all alcohol, rather than just calling for moderation. It was also perceived to be tied in with both religious renewal and progressive politics, particularly female suffrage. Lithograph published by Nathaniel Currier, 1846.

1846 • ACONTECIMIENTO • ALCOHOL • ALCOHOLISMO • AMERICA • AMERICANO • ARTE • BLANCO Y NEGRO • BORRACHO • CICLO DE VIDA • CURIOSO • CURRIER • DIBUJO • DIVERTIDO • ESTADOS UNIDOS DE AMERICA • ESTADOS UNIDOS • EXTRAÑO • FAMOSO • FORMA DE PIRÁMIDE • FORMA PIRAMIDE • GRACIOSO • HISTORIA • HISTORICO • HOMBRE • HOMBRES • ILUSTRACION • IMPORTANTE • INUSUAL • LITOGRAFIA • MASCULINO • MOVIMIENTO SOCIAL • NATHANIEL CURRIER • OBRA DE ARTE • PECULIAR • RETRATO DE HOMBRE • SATIRA • SATÍRICO • SIGLO XIX • TONTO