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Mercury, an agent of the Terror, carries Capucin Chabot naked towards a furnace; recording the turnover of human life during the Terror in the French Revolution. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1794.

Hydrotherapy: eight vignettes of different cures at Gräfenberg, Germany. Lithograph, ca. 1860.

Pompeii: the Stabian baths. Photograph by Alinari, 1931.

Russell Institution, Great Coram Street, London: the facade, with passers-by. Coloured aquatint, 1811.

M0007334: Illustration of a bath house at Leuchen

Matlock Bath, Derbyshire: panoramic view. Tinted lithograph by G. Rowe.

The story of baths and bathing / [George Ryley Scott].

The labelled interior of a boiler room at a military hospital in St. Petersburg. Lithograph.

Open air baths in Budapest; two large pools separated by railings in which people are swimming. Photograph.

A lady holding a fan in her right hand: an animal jumps out of her wig and bites the barber on the nose, forcing him to wear a black patch. Woodcut and letterpress.

Supplément à l'ordre du jour, du 27 thermidor an 8 : avis sur la santé de l'armée / R. Desgenettes.

M0012672: Woodcut illustration of cupping in a bath house, 1568

"New" Indian beauty 18 years : open early til late : water sport, hard sport, V.I.P, bubble bath, hotel visits : off Tottenham Ct Rd., Warren St., Gt. Portland St. : local.

The Turkish bath in health and disease : being the substance of a lecture delivered at Sheffield on the 16th of December, 1858 / by John le Gay Brereton.

Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge.

M0007331: Illustration of two wooden vapour baths

Handbook : City of Dundee Corporation Baths and wash-houses / with the compliments of Markets and Baths Committee.

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce. Vol VI

Rules and orders of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ..

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.V.

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.III.

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.IV.

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Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce. Vol VI

Rules and orders of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ..

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.V.

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.III.

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.IV.

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Baths

Images from the collections

Images featuring Baths

Works from the collections

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence of the Bath and West of England Society for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce. Vol VI

Rules and orders of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ..

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.V.

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.III.

Letters and papers on agriculture, planting, &c. selected from the correspondence-book of the Society instituted at Bath, for the encouragement of agriculture, arts, manufactures, and commerce, ... Vol.IV.

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