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Bathhouses

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Books

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

    Himmelsbach, Iso. | Date: 2000
    • Pictures
    • Online

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

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1899?] | Reference: 727319i
    Part of: Funeral in Japan: watercolours
    • Pictures

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

    | Date: [1853] | Reference: 35051i
    • Pictures
    • Online

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

    | Date: 1937 | Reference: 34544i
    • Pictures

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

    Antimenes Painter, active 6th century. | Date: 1937 | Reference: 34597i
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