The angel of temperance from BL Eg 943, f. 107v
Framed miniature of Dante, Statius, Virgil, and the angel of temperance. Image taken from f. 107v of Divina Commedia (index Divine Comedy): Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso, with a short Latin commentary; the Capi... More
Fortitude and Temperance from BL Royal 6 E IX, f. 21v
Miniature of personifications of Fortitude holding a mace and a shield with an elephant, and Temperance holding scales. Image taken from f. 21v of Address in verse to Robert of Anjou, King of Naples, from the t... More
Temperance from BL Royal 19 C II, f. 49
Detail of a miniature of a man and a women at a table with a man drinking from a cup, illustrating the virtue of temperence. Image taken from f. 49 of La somme le roi, with Gospels and the Complainte de Notre D... More
Temperance and Fortitude from BL Royal 19 C II, f. 49
Miniature of a man and a women at a table with a man drinking from a cup, illustrating the virtue of temperence, and a foliate initial 'L'(a vertu), at the beginning of the rubric 'De la vertu datrempance', and... More
Temperance, 14th century, Italian
The compositional type recurs in South Italian sculpture.
Temperance from BL Harley 4431, f. 96v
Miniature of Temperance adjusting a clock, in 'L'Épître Othéa'. Image taken from f. 96v of Various works (also known as 'The Book of the Queen'), including 'Cent balades' (ff. 4-21), 'Le Débat du livre des ii a... More
Basin (so-called Temperance Dish)
François Briot (French (1550–1615 or later))
A woman representing Temperance holding a bit facing left
Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))
A woman representing Temperance holding a bit facing left
Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))
Temperance personfied by a woman standing in a niche holding a bit, fr...
Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian, Argini (?) ca. 1480–before 1534 Bologna (?))
Lucas van Leyden - Temperance, from the series The Virtues
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, Leiden ca. 1494–1533 Leiden)
Temperance (Temperancia), Lucas van Leyden
Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, Leiden ca. 1494–1533 Leiden)
Temperance (Die Mesikait), from The Seven Virtues
Hans Burgkmair (German, Augsburg 1473–1531 Augsburg)
Temperance (Die Mesikait), from The Seven Virtues
Hans Burgkmair (German, Augsburg 1473–1531 Augsburg)
Andrea Schiavone - Temperance, 16th century
In Mariette Album, folio 42, top left Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Meldola) (Italian, Zadar (Zara) ca. 1510?–1563 Venice)
Perino del Vaga - Temperance, portrait
Allegorical print showing a woman as Temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, seated, facing right, pouring liquid from a chalice, possibly diluting wine with water. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Ren... More
Temperance or Continence
Claude Beaulat (probably working 1613–37)
Parmigianino - Temperance / AA [monogram of Andrea Andreani].
Allegorical print showing a woman as Temperance, one of the cardinal virtues, seated, facing right, pouring liquid from a chalice, possibly diluting wine with water. Title from Graphic sampler / compiled by Ren... More
Jacob Matham - Temperance, from The Seven Virtues
Anonymous, Netherlandish, 17th century
Abraham Bosse - Temperance, 17th century
Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/1604–1676 Paris)
The gradual abolition off the slave trade or leaving of sugar by degre...
Print shows George III sitting at a table with the Queen and two of his daughters, and the Queen's Keeper of the Robes, Juliana Elizabeth Schwellenbergen holding a bottle of "Brandy", discussing the use of suga... More
Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal, James Gillray
James Gillray (British, Chelsea 1756–1815 London)
Temperance Enjoying a Frugal Meal, James Gillray
James Gillray (British, Chelsea 1756–1815 London)
Very Rev. Theobald Mathew. Apostle of temperance
B8749 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: McDermott (Jos. & Chas.)
[Alcohol, Death, and the Devil] / Geo. Cruikshank.
Drawing shows a macabre Medusa with a skeletal head, dressed in a tunic, holding aloft a goblet of wine and exhorting a crowd of people. Behind her stands a devil who joins in the exhortation. Cruikshank was... More
The declaration of seventy-five physicians of Boston ... Ford & Damrel...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 55, Folder 10. Copy scanned: 1
Letter from William Wolcott, Petersham, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augus...
William Wolcott writes to Amos A. Phelps regarding answers to Phelps' questions concerning the congregation, the minister, the various societies, and meetings held in Barre. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Letter from Charles Calistus Burleigh, Plainfield, [Connecticut], to W...
Charles Calistus Burleigh writes to William Lloyd Garrison to give him "a sketch of my proceedings from about [the] time of my last letter [sometime in November], up to the present date." Burleigh describes tra... More
Daughter of temperance: Virtue, love and temperance
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1578.
Letter from W.S. Nichols, Bradford, [England], to Thomas Holiday Barke...
W.S. Nichols writes to Thomas Holliday Barker about plans "to invite Mr. Garrison to visit Bradford .. [and] to have a meeting in St. George's Hall of the Temperance & Alliance Friends - and a public breakfast"... More
Letter from W.S. Nichols, Bradford, [England], to Thomas Holiday Barke...
W.S. Nichols writes to Thomas Holliday Barker about plans "to invite Mr. Garrison to visit Bradford .. [and] to have a meeting in St. George's Hall of the Temperance & Alliance Friends - and a public breakfast"... More
Letter from W.S. Nichols, Bradford, [England], to Thomas Holiday Barke...
W.S. Nichols writes to Thomas Holliday Barker about plans "to invite Mr. Garrison to visit Bradford .. [and] to have a meeting in St. George's Hall of the Temperance & Alliance Friends - and a public breakfast"... More
Letter from W.S. Nichols, Bradford, [England], to Thomas Holiday Barke...
W.S. Nichols writes to Thomas Holliday Barker about plans "to invite Mr. Garrison to visit Bradford .. [and] to have a meeting in St. George's Hall of the Temperance & Alliance Friends - and a public breakfast"... More
Letter from Abby Kimber, Kimberton, [Pennsylvania], to George Thompson...
Abby Kimber writes to George Thompson in regards to congratulating him on the woman's right movement in Scotland. She writes, "Our American ladies have been embroidering Harrison Bannery, and have presented the... More
Letter from Abby Kimber, Kimberton, [Pennsylvania], to George Thompson...
Abby Kimber writes to George Thompson in regards to congratulating him on the woman's right movement in Scotland. She writes, "Our American ladies have been embroidering Harrison Bannery, and have presented the... More
Letter from Abby Kimber, Kimberton, [Pennsylvania], to George Thompson...
Abby Kimber writes to George Thompson in regards to congratulating him on the woman's right movement in Scotland. She writes, "Our American ladies have been embroidering Harrison Bannery, and have presented the... More
Temperance caucus. [Boston 1840].
Handwritten on verso: 1840. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 57, Folder 9b.
Letter from Richard Davis Webb, Dublin, [Ireland], to William Lloyd Ga...
Richard Davis Webb writes to William Lloyd Garrison sharing his pleasure at learning that Garrison, along with Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, will come to Dublin. He then discusses the Irish people, contrasting "som... More
Letter from John Borne, 131 Vine Street, Liverpool, [England], to Will...
John Borne writes to William Lloyd Garrison and others telling them that he has written a letter "to Lawrence Heyworth Esq. the worthy President of the British Total Abstinence Association and other friends" ab... More
Letter from Abby Kimber, Kimberton, [Pennsylvania], to George Thompson...
Abby Kimber writes to George Thompson in regards to congratulating him on the woman's right movement in Scotland. She writes, "Our American ladies have been embroidering Harrison Bannery, and have presented the... More
Letter from William James Stillman, Westerly, [Rhode Island], to Maria...
William James Stillman writes to Maria Weston Chapman in regards to sending her requested poetry. Since his return from the Boston convention, he has seen an article published by Maria in the Liberator of Novem... More
The license system illustrated by Cha's Jewell
An anti-Catholic temperance cartoon. To the left a group of officials debates the licensing of a tavern in Massachusetts in 1840. To the right the Pope sells licenses to rob and to murder in Rome in 1520. The c... More
Letter from Temperance & Liberty, East Lexington, [Massachusetts], to ...
Beginning their letter with the words, "Pro Slavery and Pro Rum Identical", the author writes this letter to William Lloyd Garrison for the Liberator, describing developments in East Lexington. They state that ... More
Letter from Gerrit Smith, Peterboro, [New York], to William Lloyd Garr...
Gerrit Smith writes to William Lloyd Garrison passing along a note from his "brother James C. Jackson" about his severe illness. Smith tells Garrison that Jackson "has suffered a great deal" but yet "he is in g... More
Letter from Moses Grant, Cambridge, [Massachusetts], to Caroline Westo...
M[oses] Grant writes to Caroline Weston in regards to receiving her circular on the anti-slavery fair. She discusses the imprisonment of Laturer. She writes about her respect for the anti-slavery cause and feel... More
[Temperance pledge filled in by Neil James Sweeney, 28 of March, 1844]...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 119, Folder 26.
Letters from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, to Mrs. Hannah Cranch Bond Fifield...
Responses to invitations to address Weymouth Women's Temperance Association and a celebration hosted by the Weymouth Female Anti-Slavery Society. Courtesy of Weymouth Public Libraries, Tufts Library
Letter from Edmund Quincy, Dedham, [Massachusetts], to William Lloyd G...
Edmund Quincy writes to William Lloyd Garrison giving an account of the last meeting of the American Antislavery Society in New York. He advises Garrison to take some time for relaxation, or a vacation, as he "... More
Intemperance.–The Animal: "Though you can guess what temperance should...
T. W. Huffam (British, active 1825–56)