Temperance Banner: Love, Purity, Fidelity by Kelloggs & Comstock

Ensign, Thayer and Company · ca 1850

This hand-colored print of an outdoor scene depicts two women standing on either side of a young man. The woman on the right is dressed in red, holding the young man's arm, and appears to be tempting him with a glass of wine. A snake or serpent emerges from a pot on the right, behind the woman in red reinforcing the image of the woman in red as aligned with evil. The young man holds a water goblet in his right hand while a young woman in white looks on from the left side of the print. The scene is enclosed in a Gothic border, produced during the Gothic Revival period, and has a banner below the image that proclaims “Love, Purity, & Fidelity.”