[Four anti-Teetotalism lithographs]
H.J. [c.1830]
Four lithographs with tintstone, scarce, each sheet approx. 225 x 265mm (8¾ x 10½"). Each trimmed to image and text, with lower corners cut. Some staining at corners.
Four satirical prints of wealthy and impoverished men and women all rejecting teetotalism in favour of drinking alcohol. In Victorian Britian the temperance movement attracted large numbers of people, one of the most famous was the leading graphic satirist George Cruikshank, who became teetotal in the 1840s and thereafter devoted much of his time to producing work for the temperance cause, such as as his 'Temperance Placards'.
For one of Cruikshank's 'Temperance Placards' see ref. 40796.
[Ref: 43833] £280.00
Four lithographs with tintstone, scarce, each sheet approx. 225 x 265mm (8¾ x 10½"). Each trimmed to image and text, with lower corners cut. Some staining at corners.
Four satirical prints of wealthy and impoverished men and women all rejecting teetotalism in favour of drinking alcohol. In Victorian Britian the temperance movement attracted large numbers of people, one of the most famous was the leading graphic satirist George Cruikshank, who became teetotal in the 1840s and thereafter devoted much of his time to producing work for the temperance cause, such as as his 'Temperance Placards'.
For one of Cruikshank's 'Temperance Placards' see ref. 40796.
[Ref: 43833] £280.00