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Carnival

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  • A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • Rome: a crowd of revellers in the Corso celebrate the end of carnival by snuffing out candles. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1830.
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    Months of the year: February, in which people celebrate carnival by over-indulgence, frost-fairs etc. Engraving after P. Stevens II.

    Stevens, Pieter, approximately 1567- | Date: 1600-1699 | Reference: 46410i
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    Carnival / Cunard White Star.

    | Date: 1952
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    Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.

    Riou, Édouard, 1833-1900. | Date: [1873] | Reference: 26072i
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    A washing line bearing two inflated condoms and a red and yellow flag representing a safe-sex advertisement during the Brazilian Carnival by Gapa/BS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.

    | Date: [1995?] | Reference: 679265i
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    The carnival ball in the Palazzo del Quirinale, Rome. Gouache by A. Bianchini, 1903.

    Bianchini, Arturo, active 1898-1905. | Date: [1903] | Reference: 2969700i
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