Public and private bathing facilities in ancient Rome: fourteen figures, including a public bath complex, Seneca standing in a small ornamental bath, a father and his children bathing together, and a selection of bathing implements and strigils. Lithograph by Massias and Durin, 1888.

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[1888]
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568036i
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Public and private bathing facilities in ancient Rome: fourteen figures, including a public bath complex, Seneca standing in a small ornamental bath, a father and his children bathing together, and a selection of bathing implements and strigils. Lithograph by Massias and Durin, 1888. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Public and private baths in ancient Rome, with a cross-section of a series of rooms in a public bath complex, including a frigidarium and tepidarium, with the fires and hypocaust heating system seen below. The man standing in a small ornamental bath is based on representations of Seneca preparing his own death in the bath

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Paris : Imp. Firmin Didot Cie., [1888]

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1 print : lithograph ; sheet 21.8 x 15 cm

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Roman ; Romain ; Romisch ; Massias & Durin lith.

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Wellcome Collection 568036i

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