"A naked, bald, and grotesquely obese man stands on the tips of his toes about to plunge, or rather topple, into a bath, in which he admires, Narcissus-like, his own absurd reflection. He is poised on a platform projecting over the bath; behind him stands a comely young woman, watching in astonishment. A flesh-brush is beside her, another is on a seat on the opposite side of the bath, where a print of Narcissus is on the wall. An ugly old woman's head looks through a small rectangular aperture up m the wail; she is much amused at the scene. On the wall is a placard: 'Glowcocks Bagnio Cold and Hot Baths Cupping Sweating and otherwise cleansing the body performed here Lodgings for Gentlemen.'"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image. and Sheet trimmed with plate mark on top edge.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 6, 1803, by R. Ackermann, N. 101 Strand, London
Subject (Name):
Narcissus (Greek mythological character),
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Public baths, Obesity, Therapeutic baths, Bathing, Nudes, and Signs (Notices)
"Two handsome young courtesans coax an enormously obese and carbuncled 'cit' towards the door of a bagnio (right). One (right) takes him by the wrist, throwing back a cloak to reveal her charms; he leers hideously at her. The other takes him by the shoulders and chin. Above the door are the words 'Warm Bath'. A placard beside it: 'Restorative Drops -Old Age Debility of ever so long standing quickly restored to Youth and Vigour - Prepar'd & Sold by the . . .' They are under an archway inscribed 'Bagnio Court' in an arcade, suggesting Covent Garden."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., "Price one shilling coloured.", Plate numbered "146" in upper right corner., and The exposed breasts of the women in the image have been covered with cross-hatched lines in sepia ink.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 1st, 1812, by Thos. Tegg, No. 111 Cheapside
Subject (Topic):
Prostitution, Baths, Warm, Courtesans, Public baths, Doors & doorways, and Signs (Notices)
"Two scenes on one plate. In the top scene a hefty nude woman is helped from a bathing machine into the water by a younger nude woman and older dressed woman. Within the enclosure there are two partially clothed women. In the background there is a second bathing machine with a nude woman shown falling into the water but held around the waist by another figure. In the bottom scene, within an interior by an open fireplace, a hefty nude man falls back in a wooden tub as he is scrubbed by an older woman. At left a young woman pours in hot water from a kettle onto the man."--Metropolitan Museum of Art online catalog
Description:
Titles etched below images., Two images on one plate, each bearing the signature "Rowlandson 1800" in lower left and Ackermann's imprint below., Bottom image has remnants of an earlier imprint, mostly burnished from plate, following printmaker's signature: Pud. March [...?] 1800 [...?] Adelphi., Imperfect; sheet trimmed with loss of image and text. Description based on a more perfect impression in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession no.: 59.533.723., For a copy of the top image, published ca. 1820 by Sidebotham, see no. 14099 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 10. See also: Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, pages 41, 397., 1 print : etching, hand-colored ; sheet 22.4 x 25.7 cm., and Imperfect; only bottom image entitled "Fresh water" is present, the top image having been trimmed away.
Publisher:
Pubd. March 25, 1800, at R. Ackermann's Repository of the Arts, 101 Strand
Subject (Topic):
Public baths, Bathing, Nudes, Bathtubs & showers, Fireplaces, Kettles, and Obesity
A Turkish bath; a white woman, nude apart from a cloth around her legs, seats on low steps in a bath-house with a high ceiling perforated by numerous round holes; a black woman servant standing behind her and assisting her. On the wall to the right is a fountain with a shell-shaped basin
Description:
Title, printmaker, publisher, state, and date from Paulson., One of fifteen plates engraved for: A. de La Motraye's travels through travels through Europe, Asia, and into part of Africa., "T. 1"--Upper left corner., "X"--Upper right corner., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and On page 15 in volume 1.
Publisher:
A. de La Mottraye
Subject (Name):
La Mottraye, Aubry de, approximately 1674-1743.
Subject (Topic):
Public baths, Therapeutic baths, Servants, and Women
"Girl, where's your master!" "Gone to be champagn'd, sir" ...
Description:
Title from Wellcome Library catalogue, no. 35139i., Date of publication based on publisher's street address; see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Dialogue beneath image continues: ... ; "Gone to be what! Champagn'd! Shampoo'd, you mean: "The more fool he." "Ah! but he so complain'd, sir." "Complain'd, pho! Let him try Charles Wright's Champagne, "and then, by all the pow'rs! if he complain' "he'll well deserve to be shampoo'd again.", Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Wright, Charles.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Geo Hunt, corner of York St. & Bridges St.
Subject (Topic):
Alcoholic beverages, Public baths, Health resorts, Champagne (Wine), and Obesity
