(TEMPERANCE) Ackermann Emil; lithographer; printed by CH Cro

Sale 2432 - Lot 298

Price Realized: $ 1,950

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Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000

"TICKETS SOLD AT LIQUOR SHOPS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY" (TEMPERANCE.) Ackermann, Emil; lithographer; printed by C.H. Crosby. Black Valley Railroad. Hand-colored lithograph, 15 1/4 x 18 3/4 inches; one-inch repaired tear on upper edge, cropped with loss to imprint line, otherwise minimal wear. Boston: American Seamen's Friend Society, [1863]

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A satirical warning on the dangers of strong drink. The timetable shows the gradual progression from Sippington to Rowdyville to Murder Hollow to Idiot Flats, continuing along the Lightning Express to Dead River. The lithograph shows the distillery locomotive and its bar car pulling through the station at Drunkard's Curve, filled with paupers and derelicts. The road ahead is filled with serpents, ghostly skeletons, and a dark mountain illuminated by lightning. "One of the best of the temperance prints. . . Ackerman takes rank as a lithographer of considerable merit, and it is to be regretted that he did not do more"--Peters, America on Stone, page 71.