Curatorial description (Accessed: 29 March 2016)
Crawshay was the owner of a Welsh ironworks and an amateur photographer. He probably made this unusually intimate image in the Turkish Baths that opened in Merthyr Tydfil, near Crawshay's home, in 1866. The scene was illuminated artificially, perhaps by magnesium light, at a time when flash was not commercially available.
