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Baths

Washing of the body with a liquid

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Images from the collections

Images referencing Baths

85 images from works
  • 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.
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Works from the collections

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    • Ephemera

    "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.

    | Date: [2001]
    • Books
    • Online

    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.

    | Brereton, John le Gay. | Date: 1860
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    Lecture on the progress and success of the Droitwich brine baths : with a short history of cases and their treatment / by Mr. Bainbrigge.

    | Bainbrigge, William Henry, 1806-1884. | Date: [1877]
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0007331: Illustration of two wooden vapour baths

    | Date: 6 September 1940 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/63/1
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Ephemera

    In account with Seamill Sanatorium : Mr. Cunningham, Clyde View / Seamill Sanatorium.

    | Date: 1897
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Hydrotherapy
Mineral Waters
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Prostitutes
Prostitution
Sex
Health Resorts
Bubbles
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