Item Summary

Subject: Cartoon showing four stages of drunkenness, and promoting temperance. Each image has a line of Scripture text above and the consequences of intemperance below. The first image shows a man in his house drinking, while his wife and children look on. A cow is seen escaping through a fence outside. The second image shows a group of men in a general store. A man behind a counter pours drinks while one man is seen vomiting while sitting on a barrel, and a white man and African American man are seen fighting in front of the fireplace. The third scene shows the man sitting on the floor with an overturned chair in front of him. His children are gathered near the fireplace and his wife is crying in a chair. The last scene shows the family in a horse and carriage being taken from their foreclosed home to the alms house. A pig pen is seen in the foreground.

Descriptive Information

Title
The drunkard's progress, or The direct road to poverty, wretchedness & ruin. / Designed and published by J.W Barber, New Haven, Con. Sept. 1826.
Call Number
E-North 38/GC024/19th-Century American Caricatures/Normal/19th c./Caricatures GA 2024.03003
Identifier
ark:/88435/dcd504rz51t
Publisher
[New Haven : s.n., 1826]
Language
English
Date Created
1826
Extent
1 print : wood engraving ; image and text 21 x 37 cm., on sheet 25.5 x 37.5 cm.
References
Sinclair Hamilton Collection no. 1478
Rights Statement
Copyright Not Evaluated
Contents
The morning dram. The beginning of sorrow, neglect of business, idleness, langour, loss of appetite, dulness [sic], and heaviness, a love of strong drink increasing.
The grog shop. Bad company, profaneness, cursing and swearing, quarreling & fighting, gambling, obscenity, ridicule and hatred of religion, the gate of hell.
The confirmed drunkard. Beastly intoxication, loss of natural affection, family suffering, brutality, misery, disease, mortgages, sheriffs, writs &c.
Concluding scene. Poverty, wretchedness, a curse and burden upon society, want, beggary, pauperism, death.
Notes
Princeton copy 1 Mounted in mat
"Entered according to act of Congress the 9th day of September 1826--by John W. Barber of the state of Connecticut."

Discovery Information

Subject
Alcoholism—Pictorial works
Temperance—Pictorial works
Men—Pictorial works
Women—Pictorial works
Children—Pictorial works
African Americans—Pictorial works
Bars (Drinking establishments)—Pictorial works
Alcoholics—Family relationships—Pictorial works

Physical Characteristics

File Count
2

Institutional Information

Collection
Omega Project
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f896ff19-c794-4ed7-916b-0f08d0a01d5e/manifest