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| Keywords: Eugène Atget, Shop Front, rue Michel-Le-Comte - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en In the 1600s when literacy was rare symbols were used to illustrate the goods and services offered by merchants At this shop front Eugène Atget photographed a sign that featured a wrought iron rope bucket and pulley which allude to a well The refreshment drawn up at Au Bon Puits The Good Well was not water but wine This historic sign is now part of a collection in the Musée Carnavalet that focuses on early pictorial signs 1901 Albumen silver print Image 21 6 x 17 5 cm 8 1/2 x 6 7/8 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 70006 Inscription Title and negative number inscribed verso print in pencil Secondary Inscription Inscribed verso print in pencil in the hand of André Jammes anc coll x vendu par A Brieux/expo Malerei und Photographie Zurich 1977 no 84 credit line accession number 90 XM 64 46 PD-old-auto 1927 1901 in commerce 1901 in Paris 1901 photographs Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum Rue Michel-le-Comte Paris Shop signs in Paris Water well pulleys | ||||
