London 176- Reced of the sum of two Guineas being the first payment for a work entitled the Ancient Thermae built in Rome, which I promise to deliver agreeable to the printed proposal on payment of the remainder : 1.2.3. Vas caldarium, Tepidarium et Frigidarium 4[.] Praefurnium 5[.] Cupa in qua se laverent Veteres Romani. 6[.] Strigillium 7[.] Vas in quo olea haberent oderifera. /
Cameron, Charles,approximately 1743-1812.
Cameron, Charles,approximately 1743-1812.Baths of the Romans explained and illustrated.
[London : s.n.,
1767?]
This is an engraved receipt for Cameron's major architectural work, The Baths of the Romans (London, 1772), a work conceived in 1768 when Cameron visited the remains of the baths at Rome. Proposals were not issued until 1770 and the book in 1772.
Public Baths
Art