Tattooing at the London Hammam

                

Dragon tattoo by Sutherland Macdonald  

Dragon, tattooed in black, green, and red, by Mr Macdonald

 

Sutherland Macdonald became Steward at the Jermyn Street Hammam in 1888 and (either immediately, or very soon after) opened a Tattooist's Salon there. Several of the sons of Queen Victoria were tattooed by him during visits to the Hammam. Sutherland became a shareholder of the London & Provincial Turkish Baths Company Limited (proprietors of the Hammam) in 1897, and retained his shares till he died in 1937.

 

< Photo: Gambier Bolton

Reproduced from: 'Pictures on the human skin' / Gambier Bolton      Strand magazine     (1897; vol.xiii, no.54)   pp.425-434
  
I am most indebted to James Bradley for this reference

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