Balneator. Der Bader. (The Bathhouse Proprietor) (BM 1904,0206.103.94)
Summary
One of 133 woodcut book-illustrations, showing an interior of a bathhouse with a naked man and naked woman seated on a bench, the woman has two cups on her back and washes a child, which is in front of her, in the foreground a baby in a tub, secured with a cloth from slipping into the water, on the left the proprietor cupping the man's back; from Hartmann Schopper, 'Panoplia [Greek] Omnium illiberalium mechanicarum aut sedentariarum artium ...', (Frankfurt, Sigmund Feierabend, 1568), quire M6 with Latin and German title and Latin verses by Schopper in one column.
Woodcut and letterpress
Date
1568
Source
British Museum
Copyright info
Public Domain