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Springs

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  • The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.
  • Lourdes and Gave-de-Pau, Hautes Pyrénées, France: peasants fishing with the castle in the background. Lithograph, 1821, after M. Colston.
  • Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.
  • Strathpeffer Mineral Wells, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland. Engraving by J.C. Armytage, 1836, after T. Allom.
  • Bad Kreuth, Bavaria: the healing spring, and monument to King Maximilian I of Bavaria. Lithograph by F. Lacroix, 1828, after C. Heinzmann after J.-B. Métivier.
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    The interior of the thermal baths, Caldas da Rainha, Portugal. Coloured aquatint by H. L'Evêque, 1814.

    L'Evêque, 1769-1832. | Date: 2 May 1814 | Reference: 15793i
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    De admirandis Hungariae aquis hypomnemation / Georgio Wernhero autore.

    Werner, Georg, -1567. | Date: Anno Domini 1551 mense Septembri
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    Crowds of old and infirm people arrive at the fountain of youth to drink the special water; to the left are a group of youthful people dancing and singing, rejuvenated by the spring. Engraving by Boilard, ca. 1720.

    Boilard, active approximately 1720. | Reference: 20262i
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    Des eaux thermales de Bains-en-Vosges : et leur usage dans les maladies chroniques.

    Bailly, Nicolas, 1817- | Date: 1852
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    Franzensbad Franzens-Quelle : alkalischer, glaubersalziger eisensäurling / Franzensbader Mineralwasser-Versendung.

    | Date: [between 1910 and 1919]
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