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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. Below the structure, the protagonist's wife and child stand in tears. The lithograph is based on
John Warner Barber's 1826 work
The Drunkard's Progress, or The Direct Road to Poverty, Wretchedness, & Ruin. Critical reception has been poor since the image was released, but it influenced other temperance-themed works.
The Drunkard's Progress is used in high school American history classes to teach about the temperance movement. ..."
The Drunkard's Progress, or The Direct Road to Poverty, Wretchedness, & Ruin. John Warner Barber 1826.
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