M0019786: "Drinking the waters" at Bath, Rowlandson

Previous title, replaced July 2022: 'Drinking the waters' at Bath.

Reproduction of "Drinking the waters" from Thomas Rowlandson's Conforts of Bath, 1798, showing an early version of the invalid wheelchair and bath chair. Published in Smith, R. A. L.: Bath, London : B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1944

January 1964

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 8.5 x 10.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.