Buildings equipped with swimming pools and other facilities for bathing and swimming, traditionally the primary hygienic facility in a city or town

Baths, Southernhay, Exeter. Engraving by J.F. Lambert, 1830, after W.H. Bartlett.

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

Baths and laundry in Marshall Street, Soho: elevation above and plans below. Wood engraving, 1861.

Buxton, Derbyshire: the baths, with scale key. Wood engraving by B. Sly after H. Currey.

Hamburg's floating baths: plans and elevations, and detail of filter machine. Line engraving by Mutlow.

The bath house and cold baths of Bungay, Suffolk with a description of the baths. Line engraving.

Sulphur Baths, Uritzino, Japan: panoramic view. Coloured lithograph by Hanhart after C. Wirgman.

The baths and mineral springs, Ems, West Germany. Line engraving by J. Willis after W. Tombleson.

The Baths, Gravesend, Kent: public beach. Line engraving by H. Adlard, 1828, after G. Shepherd.

Above Bar Street, Southampton, Hampshire. Coloured engraving by P. Brannon, 1846.

The Baths of Leuk, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Lithograph by J. Jacottet after R. Ritz.

Baths Langen, Schwalbach, Wetzlar, Germany. Etching by T. Jones after W. Tombleson.

1 print : aquatint ; platemark 12.5 x 19.6 cm

Royal Baths, York Hotel, Stocker & Longmore's New Baths, York Terrace, Sidmouth, Devon. Tinted aquatint.

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

M0006162: Model of a German bathing room in the middle ages / M0008673: Model of the steam baths of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in Rome, 295 A.D.

1 print : line engraving, with watercolour ; image 28.6 x 44.1 cm

Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 24.7 x 37.3 cm

Naxia Town, Greece: from the harbour. Line engraving by F. Decquevauvillier, 1782, after Choiseul-Gouffier.

1 print : wood engraving ; image 7.2 x 9.8 cm

Coldbath House. Wood engraving.

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Public baths

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Images referencing Public baths

Works from the collections

Royal Baths, York Hotel, Stocker & Longmore's New Baths, York Terrace, Sidmouth, Devon. Tinted aquatint.

M0006162: Model of a German bathing room in the middle ages / M0008673: Model of the steam baths of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in Rome, 295 A.D.

Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.

Naxia Town, Greece: from the harbour. Line engraving by F. Decquevauvillier, 1782, after Choiseul-Gouffier.

Coldbath House. Wood engraving.

Public baths

Images from the collections

Images referencing Public baths

Works from the collections

Royal Baths, York Hotel, Stocker & Longmore's New Baths, York Terrace, Sidmouth, Devon. Tinted aquatint.

M0006162: Model of a German bathing room in the middle ages / M0008673: Model of the steam baths of the Roman Emperor Diocletian in Rome, 295 A.D.

Women washing clothes in Matlock Bath, Derbyshire. Coloured line engraving, 1794.

Naxia Town, Greece: from the harbour. Line engraving by F. Decquevauvillier, 1782, after Choiseul-Gouffier.

Coldbath House. Wood engraving.

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