Philippus Jacobus Brepols, “Credit is dead; the bad payers killed him”, a letterpress print from the first half of the 19th century.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Art of Making Debts: Accounting for an Obsession in 19th-Century France
Being in debt was once an artful *promenade* — the process of eluding creditors through disguise and deceit. Erika Vause explores a forgotten financial history: the pervasive humor that once accompanied the literature and visual culture of debt.
Also appearing in the essay…
Credit Is Dead; the Bad Payers Killed Him
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ca. 1820
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