Unusual Inducements
by Richard Reeve
Title
Unusual Inducements
Artist
Richard Reeve
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This 1910 advertisement shows a somewhat bizarre attempt to advertise a piano. I am not sure whether the graphic is to illustrate that your children will be enraptured, or can be stored inside the piano.
On second thoughts, the suspicious lack of pianist is also very sinister. What have the deceptively cheerful looking kids done with him or her? Perhaps they are now jumping up and down on the inert body they have stashed in the piano carcass for making them learn their scales?
All very odd!
FAA Featured Group Image
WHAT? - 01/20/2015
Weekly FUN For ALL Mediums - 01/20/2015
Posters - 01/21/2015
Uploaded
January 18th, 2015
Statistics
Viewed 2,174 Times - Last Visitor from New York, NY on 04/19/2024 at 3:04 AM
Embed
Share
Sales Sheet
Similar Images
Comments (5)
Chrisann Ellis
Richard, Congrats!!! Your Outstanding Work has been Featured On The Home Page of Weekly Fun in All Mediums!!!
Meg Shearer
Thank you for your wonderful description! : D my mind was starting down a similar path and you confirmed my suspicions... Ah, simpler times, when kids could get rid of piano teachers with ease. Hmmm, another option, less sinister, could be you received five orphans with every piano purchased? Ver fun Richard! L/F!
Richard Reeve replied:
Thank you, Meg. I hadn't thought of that - perhaps 5 smiling cherubs were part of the deal :D
Recently Viewed
