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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.

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.

An Egyptian bath-house: above, ground plan; below, interior with a masseur etc. Engraving by L. Petit after V. Denon.

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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.

An Egyptian bath-house: above, ground plan; below, interior with a masseur etc. Engraving by L. Petit after V. Denon.