Title

Beauties of the Installment Plan, 1883. Creator: Friedrich Graetz.

Caption

Beauties of the Installment Plan, 1883. Print shows at center, a "Profits" driven retail salesman who lets his merchandise go "Cheap" and at a "Bargain" through an "Easy Payments" plan depicted in the jaws of a trap, with an "Agreement", also depicted in the jaws of a trap, that states "Goods forfeited if installment not paid when due". Vignettes surrounding the central figure show such merchandise as chairs, carpets, beds, "the Baby-Carriage", a stove, sewing machine, and the dinner table, being "carried off" for failure to pay on time. From Puck magazine..

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Reference

HRM23B23_239

Model release

NA

Property release

NA

License type

Rights managed

Available size

45,9Mb (3,4Mb) / 16,5in x 10,8in / 4960 x 3231 (300dpi)

Keywords

people job arts country art occupation magazine museum color scene SCENES depiction location century profession debt payment credit profit concept parody puck bailiff publication United States of America debts Colour 19th century 1880s nineteenth century satire satirical American America USA creditors creditor united states Los Angeles County Museum of Art Colour lithograph instalment Heritage Art Print debt collector profiteering 19th-century LACMA Friedrich Graetz Graetz Friedrich