Public steambath common in the Islamic world

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An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Coloured etching after G. de Cari.

An elaborately dressed woman pampers a man in a vapour-bath. Wood engraving after G. de Cari.

Regd.  offices of Century Thermal Bath Cabinet Ltd., 203-205, Regent Street, London, W. / A.R. Pointing, managing director.

An emaciated old man is transformed by four beauticians. Coloured lithograph by Ch.-J. Fuhr after Ch. Bargue, 1852.

The doorway to the Turkish bath, El-Télet, Cairo (?). Lithograph by L.A. Asselineau after A.C.T.E. Prisse d'Avennes.

Bursa, Turkey: bath of Suleiman the Magnificent (Yeni Kaplıca), with men sitting around the sides of a circular pool in the domed building. Photograph.

Turkish Baths in Jermyn Street.

Manual of the Turkish bath : heat, a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals / from the writings of Mr. Urquhart ; edited by John Fife.

Traité sur l'hygiène et la médecine des bains russes et orientaux. À l'usage des médecins et des gens du monde / par C. Lambert.

The Turkish Bath in health and disease : being a lecture delivered in the Mechanics' Hall, Sheffield, Friday, December 16th, 1858 / by John Le Gay Brereton.

M0005087: Interior of the women's baths

Specification of Thomas Timmins & Thomas Simmons : bath.

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Baths, Turkish

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Images referencing Baths, Turkish

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Manual of the Turkish bath : heat, a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals / from the writings of Mr. Urquhart ; edited by John Fife.

Traité sur l'hygiène et la médecine des bains russes et orientaux. À l'usage des médecins et des gens du monde / par C. Lambert.

The Turkish Bath in health and disease : being a lecture delivered in the Mechanics' Hall, Sheffield, Friday, December 16th, 1858 / by John Le Gay Brereton.

M0005087: Interior of the women's baths

Specification of Thomas Timmins & Thomas Simmons : bath.

Baths, Turkish

Images from the collections

Images referencing Baths, Turkish

Works from the collections

Manual of the Turkish bath : heat, a mode of cure and a source of strength for men and animals / from the writings of Mr. Urquhart ; edited by John Fife.

Traité sur l'hygiène et la médecine des bains russes et orientaux. À l'usage des médecins et des gens du monde / par C. Lambert.

The Turkish Bath in health and disease : being a lecture delivered in the Mechanics' Hall, Sheffield, Friday, December 16th, 1858 / by John Le Gay Brereton.

M0005087: Interior of the women's baths

Specification of Thomas Timmins & Thomas Simmons : bath.

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