Balneator. Der Bader. (The Bathhouse Proprietor) (BM 1904,0206.103.94)

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Balneator. Der Bader. (The Bathhouse Proprietor) (BM 1904,0206.103.94)

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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.
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1568
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British Museum
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