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  • A Russian bathhouse: men and women bathing in the steam and invigorating each other with bundles of twigs. Colour aquatint by E.M. Korneev, 1811/1813.
  • Men and women bathing in the fountain of youth, next to a bathhouse with a roof terrace where people disport themselves. Engraving, 16--, after S. Beham.
  • Men and women bathing in the fountain of youth, next to a bathhouse with a roof terrace where people disport themselves. Engraving, 16--, after S. Beham.
  • The interior of a bathhouse; a barber dressed in national costume (?) sharpens his razor; a customer sitting cross-legged on a bench awaits his turn. Coloured lithograph.
  • A plan of an Egyptian bath-house. Engraving with aquatint by G.B. Cecchi.
  • The interior of an Egyptian bath-house; a seated man is being washed and attended to by four male servants. Engraving by G.B. Cecchi after V. Denon.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Men bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Greek open-air shower baths for men. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937, after the Antimenes Painter.
  • Women bathing in a public gymnasium. Gouache painting by S.W. Kelly, 1937.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • The fountain of youth. Woodcut by H. Beham, ca. 1536.
  • John Rigg, cupper : at the Hummums in the Little Piazza Covent-Garden, with a back door from Charles-Street where gentlemen only may be always accommodated (if not full) in the best and neatest manner with lodging, sweating, bathing, or cupping.
  • A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • A bath-house in which the attendant bathes his customers and applies cupping glasses to their backs. Woodcut by J. Amman.
  • Men washing the body of a recently deceased man in a Japanese bath-house. Watercolour painting, 18--.
  • Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.
  • Public baths and wash-houses for the adjacent parishes of Saint Giles-in-the-Fields and St George Bloomsbury, London: elevation. Wood engraving, 1853.
  • Gay Buddy : May 2011 / Antares Media Ltd.
  • Gay Buddy : May 2011 / Antares Media Ltd.
  • A naked man in a sauna with a message promoting safe sex. Colour lithograph by Michael Bidner for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.
  • 17, rue des genres : le sauna : "C'est juste une fiction" / Cunéo ; Crips Île-de-France.
  • 17, rue des genres : le sauna : "C'est juste une fiction" / Cunéo ; Crips Île-de-France.
  • Tales of gay sex. 11, Let's get physical / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Tales of gay sex. 11, Let's get physical / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Tales of gay sex. 11, Let's get physical / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Tales of gay sex. 11, Let's get physical / Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • Tales of gay sex. 11, Let's get physical / Terrence Higgins Trust.