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Subscribers' ticket to the hot baths Temple Strt. [Street] Dublin
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| Summary: | Stipple copperplate engraved ticket. Bears the image of a lady in classical robes about to plunge a small putto [cherub with wings] into a small basin that rests upon a plinth. Printed on recto [on front of plinth] is: "Subscribers / Ticket / to the / Hot Baths / Temple Strt. / Dublin". Handwritten in black ink on verso is: "Miss Cavanagh / 41976". For references to baths located in Temple Street and elsewhere in Dublin in the early nineteeth century, see Volume II, p. 1173 of "History of the City of Dublin: From the Earliest Accounts to the present time..." by the late J. Warburton, the late Rev. J. Whitelaw and the Rev. Robert Walsh (printed by W. Bulmer and Co. for T. Cadell and W. Davies, London 1818), held at NLI Call no. Ir 94133 w 2 and 'The Freeman's Journal' which has regular advertisements [from Monday, October 21, 1811 through to March 2, 1812] for "The Richmond Baths, Temple Street, Mountjoy Square - Open to bathers every day from eight o'clock in the morning to 'till ten at night. Portable hot salt water baths sent to any part of Dublin". An advertisement that appears in 'The Freeman's Journal' on October 13, 1812 refers to the "Hot and Cold Salt Water Baths Under the Patronage of Their Graces the Lord Lieutenant and Duchess of Richmond, Temple Street, Mountjoy Square" which lists the rate of admission, the fact that the hours are from seven in the morning until ten at night; that one can avail of a reduction when three baths are subscribed for in advance and that "a perpetual ticket" is ten guineas, adding that "every lady and gentleman sees their bath filled and emptied". |
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| Language: | English |
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[n.d., ca. 1811-1812].
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| Notes: | This item is held in the Department of Ephemera. Physical description: 1 card; 9.8 x 6.5 cm. Portion of title: [Entrance ticket to the baths located in Temple Street, Dublin] more |
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EPH A763 |
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Ephemera |
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