Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Title:
Das Römische Carneval.
Published / Created:
Berlin : Gedruckt bey Johann Friedrich Unger ; 1789.

Weimar und Gotha : In Commission bey Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, 1789.
Physical Description:
69, [3] p., XX leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GT4852 .G64 1789+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Later incorporated in the author's Italienische Reise.

First edition, limited to 250 copies.

Engravings by Georg Melchior Kraus; after Johann Georg Schüz. Engraved vignette on title page by Johann Heinrich Lips.

Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany). Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.), Sn15

Hiler, H. Bibliography of costume, p. 363

Errata: p. [71].
Subject Terms:
Carnival -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800. | Carnival costume -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800. | Costume -- Italy -- Early works to 1800. | Festivals -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800. | Italy -- Social life and customs -- 18th century -- Early works to 1800. | Engraving -- Specimens -- 1789. | Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1789.
Contributors:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749–1832. Italienische Reise. | Lips, Johann Heinrich, 1758–1817, ill. | Schüz, Johann Georg, 1755–1813, ill. | Kraus, Georg Melchior, 1733–1806, engraver.