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Saint Pancras Wells.

[Anonymous]
[c.1750-1800].
Drawing in ink with visible pencil guide lines.
494 by 310mm (19.5 by 12.25 inches).
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A drawing of Saint Pancras Wells. The area around what is now King's Cross was famous for its medicinal springs, and there were several wells in the area where Londoners could go to take the waters. The stones illustrated in the caption below the image were supposedly voided by people who had drunk the waters at St Pancras: they were also claimed as a cure for scrofula, leprosy and scurvy. The wells were named after the church, thought to be one of the oldest in England, wh...

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BM 1927,1126.1.24.1.

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