Urquhart's Riverside Turkish bath, near Rickmansworth


  Riverside Turkish bath  
 

Urquhart's famous Turkish bath at Riverside House, his home at Moneyhill, near Rickmansworth

Fife, in his Manual, used the printing block which had earlier been used in Erasmus  Wilson's The Eastern, or Turkish bath

 

< Manual of the Turkish bath: heat a mode of  cure...from   the writings of Mr Urquhart / edited by Sir John Fife. — London : John Churchill, 1865. — p.121

 

This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found on the following pages:

The death of  William Urquhart

The Urquharts' Riverside bath

Urquhart and the London Hammam. Part 3: the class barrier

David and Harriet Urquhart: a team

Performance in the raw. Part 4: the ritual of the towels

 

Victorian Turkish Baths:
their origin, development,
and gradual decline

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