Eighteenth-Century Images of Bath
These aquatints and etchings depict the rise of Bath in the eighteenth century.   If you would like to see larger versions of any of these images, click on the image.
 
 
 
Anthony Walker, "Prior Park."  Engraving, 1750.   (In James Lee Milne and David Ford, Images of Bath, Richmond- Upon-Thames: St. Helena Press, 1982), #386.) Thomas Malton, "Queen Square." Aquatint, 1784. 
(Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North East Somerset)   
 
 

Thomas Malton, "The Completion of the Royal Crescent, Bath."  Aquatint, 1769.   (Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North East Somerset) 
 
 

John Palmer, "Interior of the Pump Room." Aquatint, 1804. (Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North East Somerset)                                
 
S. H. Grimm, "The Circus, looking towards Gay Street." Watercolor, 1773.  (In James Lee Milne and David Ford, Images of Bath, Richmond-Upon-Thames: St. Helena Press, 1982, #506) 
 
 

J.C. Nattes, "The Cross Bath." Aquatint, 1804.  (Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North East Somerset) 
 
 
 
 

Thomas Malton, "The Royal Crescent."  Aquatint, 1777. (Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North East Somerset) J.C. Nattes, "Bath inside Queen's Bath." Aquatint, 1806. (Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and North East Somerset)
 
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