Urquhart's Riverside Turkish bath, near Rickmansworth
< 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)
Urquhart's famous Turkish bath at Riverside House, his home at Moneyhill, Rickmansworth.
Fife, in his Manual, used the printing block which had earlier been used in Erasmus Wilson's The Eastern, or Turkish bath.
This page enlarges an image or adds to the information found below:
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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