Hygiene Collection (page 9)

British soldiers washing in a mountain stream, Kalsi, India, 1917

Washing Day - All Hands Called In To Help, 1889. Family ranch life in Texas, USA. From The Graphic, 17 August 1889

Advert for Vinolia soap, c1900s

Excavating and washing of sands at the bottom of a river, California, 19th century. A print from le Tour du Monde

Pears, soapmakers by appointment to the majesties, c19th century

Washing The Blackamoor, 1795. Artist: Isaac Cruikshank
Washing The Blackamoor, 1795. You may as well attempt to remove the Island of Jersey to the Hightest Mountain in Wales. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century

Sir Joseph Bazalgette, CB, British civil engineer, 1877. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
Sir Joseph Bazalgette, CB, British civil engineer, 1877. Bazalgettes major achievements were in the field of public health engineering

Children Bathing, 18th century, (1912). Artist: L Edwards
Children Bathing, 18th century, (1912). A print from The Connoisseur, (London, 1912)

A Well Cleaner, 1737-1742. Artist: Bouchardon
A Well Cleaner, 1737-1742. Part of a series called Paris Street Cries, by Bouchardon

In the wood of Roucy (Aisne), 15 April 1917, (1926). Artist: Francois Flameng
In the wood of Roucy (Aisne), 15 April 1917, (1926). French soldiers performing their ablutions and hanging up their laundry on the eve of battle

The Ghat, Hurdwar, Hindus Bathing in the Ganges, 19th century. Artist: J Redaway
The Ghat, Hurdwar, Hindus Bathing in the Ganges, 19th century. Indians bathing in the holy waters of the River Ganges at Hardwar, Uttar Pradesh

Poster for the 1911 First International Hygiene Exhibition, 1911. Artist: Stuck, Franz, Ritter von (1863-1928)
Poster for the 1911 First International Hygiene Exhibition, 1911. Found in the collection of the Deutsches Hygiene Museum Dresden

Russian Venus, 1925-1926. Artist: Boris Mikhajlovich Kustodiev
Russian Venus, 1925-1926. Found in the collection of the State Art Museum, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Comb with a fighting scene, c400 BC. Scythian Art. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Toilet of a Woman, 1884. Artist: Edgar Degas
Toilet of a Woman, 1884. Degas, Edgar (1834-1917). Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

The Bathhouse Women, 1790s. Artist: Torii Kiyonaga
The Bathhouse Women, 1790s. From a private collection

Pilate Washing his Hands, 1830. Artist: JMW Turner
Pilate Washing his Hands, 1830. Based on Rembrandts work of the same title, painted in 1663, showing Pontius Pilate, Roman Governor of Judea, washing his hands of his decision to crucify Jesus

Bathsheba at the Fountain, c1635. Artist: Peter Paul Rubens
Bathsheba at the Fountain, c1635. Bathsheba, the beautiful wife of Uriah, was taking a bath, when King David saw her and fell in love

Red-headed Woman... in the Bathroom, c1900-1917. Artist: Raphael Kirchner
Red-headed Woman with a Yellow Dressing Gown in the Bathroom, 1876-1917

The Nativity of the Antonins of Isenheim, c1490-1528. Artist: Matthias Gruenewald
The Nativity of the Antonins of Isenheim, 15th Century

Birth of the Virgin, 1342. Artist: Pietro Lorenzetti
Birth of the Virgin, 1342. From the collection of the Opera del Duomo, Siena

Lady at her toilet, cave fresco, Ajanta, India. 1st-5th century. (20th century)

December, slaughtering the pig, 1520. Artist: Gerhard Hoornbach
December, slaughtering the pig, 1520. Village scene: a couple bleed a pig, while in a hut on the left bread is being taken to the oven and on the right a woman can be seen washing

Christ in the House of Simon, 1440 s. Artist: Dieric Bouts
Christ in the House of Simon, 1440 s. Located in the collection at, Staatliche Museum, Berlin

She fleeces him, 1799. Artist: Francisco Goya
She fleeces him, 1799. Plate 35 of Los caprichos. Los Caprichos were published in 1799 at a time of social repression and economic crisis in Spain The series is evidence of the artists political

The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. Artist: Landelot-Theodore Turpin de Crisse
The Temple of Vesta at Tivoli, Rome, 1831. From the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Angers, France

Study of bathers, 1890. Artist: Paul Cezanne
Study of bathers, 1890

Waterfall of Roben, Oyama, Japan, 1827. Artist: Hokusai
Waterfall of Roben, Oyama, Japan, 1827. From the Victoria & Albert Museum, London

Finnish or Russian bath, 19th century. Men and women in a steam bath or sauna. On the left men are throwing water into a furnace to create steam while on the right a woman is having cold water poured

Women washing the precious metal platinum from alluvial gravels, Urals, Russia, 1916

Washing ore to extract gold, 1683. Water is fed into a sieve containing crushed ore. The solution containing ore in suspension is fed along collecting pans, often lined with dark woollen cloth

Trade card for Sunlight soap, c1900. Why does a woman look old sooner than a man? The answer is that she is not using Sunlight soap to make her household labours easier

Ignaz Philip Semmelweis (1818-1865), Hungarian obstetrician, 19th century

Volunteer English woman driver washing down her ambulance, Cambridge, World War I, 1915. The ambulance, a converted Wolseley, was donated towards the war effort

Ward in the Hampstead Smallpox Hospital, 1871. This was under the management of the Metropolitan Asylums Board and was built to meet the needs of the epidemic of the winter of 1870 to 1871

Washing, c1845. Artist: Robert Kent Thomas
Washing, c1845. Showing two shepherds washing their sheep in a pond. Plate from Graphic Illustrations of Animals - Showing Their Utility to Man

Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Artist: Lester
Manner of Washing for Gold in the Brazilian Mountains, 1814. Negro slaves washing for alluvial gold watched over by a slave master brandishing a whip

Soapine household cleaner, late 19th century. American trade card for Kendall Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. Whale blubber was used in some soap products

Aquamanile, cast bronze Persian (Khurusan) animal statue, 1206. A Zebu-Cow suckles her calf as a lion attacks her back. Lost wax process, incised and inlaid with silver. Hermitage Museum, Leningrad

Depiction of bathing a baby from a Roman sarcophagus, now at the Capitoline Museum in Rome

Cosmydor Savon, 1891. Artist: Cheret, Jules (1836-1932)
Cosmydor Savon, 1891. From a private collection

Painting of the god Khrishna watching Radha at her bath, 19th century
Painting of Khrishna watching Radha at her bath from Garwhal in the Punjab hills, from the V&As collection, 19th century

A Satire on Physicians, c1708. Artist: Jean-Antoine Watteau
A Satire on Physicians, c1708. Watteau, Jean Antoine (1684-1721). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

White-ground lekythos with a pianting of a woman at a wash basin, Attica, Greece, 470BC-460BC. From the British Museums collection

Silver relief medallion bearing the image of Aphrodite and Eros
A silver relief medallion with gilding, showing Aphrodite at her toilet, accompanied by an attendent and Eros. Made in Taranto in South Italy

A Court for King Cholera, 1852. A scene typical of the crowded, unsanitary conditions in London slums. Cholera first appeared in Britain in 1831

Archimedes in his bath, 1547. Sixteenth-century hand-coloured woodcut of the Greek mathematician and inventor (c287-212 BC)

Miners washing for gold in the Californian gold fields, 1853. The apparatus they are using is called a Long Tom. The discovery of gold in 1848 led to mass immigration into California

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