M0006169: Communal Bath of the 17th century / M0006175: Strigils hanging from a ring. / M0006178: Ilustration of a person bathing, 15th century manuscript / M0006179: Illustration of people bathing, 15th century manuscript

Date:
11 April 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/51/63
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M0006169: Communal Bath of the 17th century / M0006175: Strigils hanging from a ring. / M0006178: Ilustration of a person bathing, 15th century manuscript / M0006179: Illustration of people bathing, 15th century manuscript. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Communal Bath of the 17th century.
Previous title, replaced August 2020: Strigils hanging from a ring.
Previous title, replaced August 2020: Patient bathing at a Medieval spring, 15th century manuscript.
Previous title, replaced August 2020: Patients bathing at a Mediaeval spring, XVth century.

Description

Four images on one negative: one is a manuscript illumination of a mounted man at the door to a bath house, with Farsi text, from a Persian manuscript held by the National Library of France. Two are illustrations of a people bathing from an unknown 15th century manuscript. One is a photograph of six strigils hanging from two rings.

Publication/Creation

11 April 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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