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Bagnigge Wells: the gardens, with people taking tea, playing bowls, etc. Coloured process print after a drawing made in 1830.

Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "trap ball" ground, with men playing, St Pancras Church in the background. Etching.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

Bagnigge Wells: the exterior, with heaps of wood and stone in the foreground. Etching by C. J. Smith, 1844.

Bagnigge Wells, London: two alluring, fashionably-dressed women, one plucking rosebuds. Mezzotint, 1780.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: view showing St Pancras church, and the Wells in the background. Engraving by J. Roberts after J.B.C. Chatelain.

The Queen's levée and society figures drinking the waters in the pump room with a key to important society figures, Bath. Line engraving by W.J. Alais, 1817, after Mr. Marsh.

Buxton, Derbyshire: the Crescent. Lithograph by G. Rowe.

The German spa, Brighton: pump room and surrounding grounds. Aquatint by M.U. Sears after himself.

Buxton, Derbyshire: the Crescent. Aquatint.

Sadler's Wells, with the New River running beside. Etching by F. W. Pailthorpe after R. C. Andrews, 1792.

Bagnigge Wells: the exterior, after a print made in 1780. Wood engraving by [W.H.P.].

Spadacrene Dunelmensis, or, A short treatise of an ancient medicinal fountain or vitrioline spaw near the city of Durham : together with the constituent principles, virtues and use thereof / by E.W.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.

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Health resorts - England

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Images about Health resorts - England

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Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

Bagnigge Wells: the exterior, after a print made in 1780. Wood engraving by [W.H.P.].

Spadacrene Dunelmensis, or, A short treatise of an ancient medicinal fountain or vitrioline spaw near the city of Durham : together with the constituent principles, virtues and use thereof / by E.W.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

Health resorts - England

Images from the collections

Images about Health resorts - England

Works from the collections

Panoramic view of Buxton with a key to the sights. Line engraving by Newman & Co.

Bagnigge Wells: the exterior, after a print made in 1780. Wood engraving by [W.H.P.].

Spadacrene Dunelmensis, or, A short treatise of an ancient medicinal fountain or vitrioline spaw near the city of Durham : together with the constituent principles, virtues and use thereof / by E.W.

St Pancras Wells, King's Cross, London: aerial view showing the "Plantation", and St Pancras church in the background, with an advertisement and explanation. Engraving.

Bagnigge Wells, London: a family group, the Dumplings, on a day out. Mezzotint.

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