A man in Paris carrying two pails of water suspended from straps on his back along the bank of the river Seine. Etching by A. Bosse.

  • Bosse, Abraham, 1602-1676.
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1600-1699
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29453i
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A man in Paris carrying two pails of water suspended from straps on his back along the bank of the river Seine. Etching by A. Bosse. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[Paris] : Le Blond excud avec Privelege

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1 print : engraving

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La marchandise que je vends, / Et que tout le jour je pourmeine, / Vient de la Seine ou je la prends, / Ou du puits ou de la fonteine / Mais du naturel dont je suis, / J'ay si peur que l'eau ne me noye ; / Que ijen boy le moins que je puis, / Et le vin est toute ma joye.

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Roger-Armand Weigert, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIe siècle, tome I, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, Paris 1939, p. 523, no. 1350 ("Porteur d'eau")

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