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Men and women bathing in the fountain of youth, next to a bathhouse with a roof terrace where people disport themselves. Engraving, 16--, after S. Beham.

A plan of an Egyptian bath-house. Engraving with aquatint by G.B. Cecchi.

Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.

Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.

Royal Baths : shampooing, Turkish medicated, vapour, sulphur, barege, tepid & shower baths : no. 9, Suffolk Place, Pall Mall East : the original establishment by B. Dominiceti M.D., 1764 is now conducted on the same principles by Mr. Seaman.

A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.

Men bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.

The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.

John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.

"Von wegen der Badstuben..." : zur Geschichte des Freiburger Badewesens von 1300 bis 1800 / Iso Himmelsbach.

Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.

Women bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.

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Bathhouses

Images from the collections

Images about Bathhouses

Works from the collections

"Von wegen der Badstuben..." : zur Geschichte des Freiburger Badewesens von 1300 bis 1800 / Iso Himmelsbach.

Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.

Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.

Women bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.

Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.

Bathhouses

Images from the collections

Images about Bathhouses

Works from the collections

"Von wegen der Badstuben..." : zur Geschichte des Freiburger Badewesens von 1300 bis 1800 / Iso Himmelsbach.

Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.

Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.

Women bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.

Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.

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