Nov 21, 2024 - Sale 2687

Sale 2687 - Lot 221

Price Realized: $ 812
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(TEMPERANCE.) Thomas Moore, after Charles Jewett. Death on the Striped Pig. Lithograph, 12½ x 20½ inches; laid down on linen and mounted on wooden rollers (as issued?), moderate wear. Boston: Whipple & Damrell, [1839]

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The savage and destructive striped pig in this temperance print is ridden by a scythe-wielding Death, trampling drunkards and their family members, smashing through the flimsy barriers of "Moral Suasion" and "Prohibitory Law" and trampling over crates of temperance tracts. The Devil cheers from a window: "Go it, Striped! You are the best servant I ever sent into the field." One in OCLC, at the Newberry Library, which credits the art to Daniel Claypoole Johnston.