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  • A bathing room attendant applying the method of cupping to a male customer in an active bathing house. Engraving by J.C. Weigel.
  • 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.
  • Ancient Roman (?) bath and bathing accessories: nine figures, including scrapers and oil containers. Etching by A. Ottieri after V. Mollame, 18--?.
  • Bains Vigier, Pont Royal, Paris: the bathing house. Engraving by Fenner Sears & Co., 1837, after B. Ferrey.
  • An old man (Sardanapalus?) being bathed by young nude women - an attempt at rejuvenation. Process print after C. de la Passe, the elder, 1600, after M. de Vos.
  • People bathing in the river Jordan. Coloured lithograph after D. Roberts, 1839.
  • Sulphur Baths, Uritzino, Japan: panoramic view. Coloured lithograph by Hanhart after C. Wirgman.
  • Water tank, Srīperumbūdur: overflowing of the tank. Coloured aquatint by H. Merke after J. Hunter.
  • Bathers at the banks of the Jordan river, with Achmet Aga, the governor of Jerusalem, with his guards, looking on. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1843.
  • Bathers in a lake; representing August. Etching by G. Perelle, c. 1660.
  • Water tank, Srīperumbūdur, India. Coloured aquatint by C. Gold, 1799, after himself.
  • Baolee at Ramnagur, Benares, India: the public bath in the Ramnagur Palace. Coloured aquatint, 1813.
  • Mausoleum of Fateh Muhammad at Kolar, near Mysore, Karnataka. Coloured aquatint by J. Wells after A. Allan, 1794.
  • Holy Lake, Mount Zouquala, Abyssinia: pilgrims being lead to the lake in hope of a miracle. Watercolour drawing by F. Dadd, 1897.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • A girl by a river watched by three men. Etching after J. Vanderbank.
  • A voyeur watches women taking a bath while above a monk is martyred; representing the sense of sight. Engraving after G. Collaert, 1630, after N. van der Horst.
  • Hot Baths at Leuk, Switzerland: interior showing patients bathing. Process print after A. Forestier.
  • The public bath or Baollee, near Old Delhi, India. Wood engraving.
  • Christ washes the feet of the apostles. Etching by R. Stang after J.F. Overbeck, 1847.
  • A Brahman after his ritual puja. Watercolour drawing.
  • Five women bathing while a man peeps from behind a tree. Line engraving.
  • Bath, Somerset: bathers and onlookers in the courtyard containing the royal baths and great pump room, with a statue of King Bladud, founder of the baths. Engraving by W. Elliott after T. Robins.
  • Krishna stealing the cowgirls clothes and watching them bathe in the river below. Chromolithograph.
  • Leuk Baths, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Coloured etching by P.C. Geissler after himself.
  • Leuk Baths, Leuk, Switzerland: interior. Coloured etching by P.C. Geissler after himself.
  • (Left) a celebration of the birth of a child, (right) the child's first bath. Etching by B. Picart after himself, 1726.
  • The western and eastern churches represented by St. Peter's in Rome and S. Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople); Jewish circumcision and the baptism of a baby by a bishop, with a border showing headwear of different groups. Engraving by R. Smith.
  • The western and eastern churches represented by St. Peter's in Rome and S. Sophia in Istanbul (Constantinople); Jewish circumcision and the baptism of a baby by a bishop, with a border showing headwear of different groups. Engraving by R. Smith.