Little Ducks
John Leech
1856
Wood engraving
Punch (5 July 1856): 10
Georgy. “There, now, Clara — I call it very peevish of you. You promised if I let you go in first, that you wouldn;t be long, and I decalare you have been exactly an hour annd twenty minutes.” (Pouts)
The cartoon implies that for modesty or whatever reason, adult women did not share a bathing machine to the extent of changing together into swimming costume and back.
Image from Internet Archive. Text and formating by George P. Landow