A seventeenth-century bath-house, or bagnio, at St. Giles, London. Wood engraving.

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38491i
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This print shows a mineral water bath located on, or near to, No. 3 Endell Street in Covent Garden London WC2, uncovered by the redevelopment of that area in the 1840s. It was converted into a storeroom for Messrs. King, ironmongers, c. 1861. After bombing in World War II, the area was comprehensively rebuilt 1977-80

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[London]

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1 print : wood engraving ; image 9.8 x 15.1 cm

Lettering

Queen Anne's Bath. Lettering continues with a quotation from a letter to the Times about the bathhouse

References note

Views of the bath are shown in the Builder, 1861, p.700, and Old and new London, 189-, III, p.205

Reference

Wellcome Collection 38491i

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