The drunkards progress. From the first glass to the grave / lith. & pub. by N. Currier.

Print shows an archway of the nine steps of a drunkard's progress, beginning with a man in fancy dress having "a glass with a friend" and then his gradual decline in society with poverty & disease, criminal activity, becoming a bum, and his eventual "death by suicide"; a weeping woman with child is under archway.
Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1767.
Exhibited: Prohibition, National Constitution Center, Philadelphia, Pa.
Inscribed below image: 239. Deposited in the Clerk's Office for the So. Dist. of New York July 1st, 1846.
No. 431.