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
Title supplied by curator., Place of origin derived from printmaker's place of residence in 1548., Date from item., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Sex behavior.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Bathing customs, Public baths, Sex, Women, and Bathing