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  • Edo (Tokyo): Kanda Festival Procession: four large, elaborately decorated floats are shown being pulled through the city. Colour woodcut by Yoshifuji, 1884.
  • Holi, the festival of colour; Radha spraying colour at Krishna while the other gopis look on. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • The 1904 World's Fair, St. Louis, Missouri: the Festival Hall with gondolas and a swan-boat on the Grand Basin. Photograph, 1904.
  • Quasi cursores. Portraits of the high officers and professors of the University of Edinburgh at its tercentenary festival / Drawn and etched by William Hole.
  • Festival of Muḥarram: a procession of people carrying colourful pennants and replicas of the martyr's tomb. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Festival of Muḥarram: a man carrying a pennant with the hand of Fatima at the top (?). Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • Chinese festival of Tu-Ti (the Earth God): men and women are shown celebrating beside a shrine, accompanied by a group of musicians. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • Above, a festival procession held on the fifth day of the fifth month; below, cherry blossoms at Koganu, west of Tokyo. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, ca. 1870.
  • Edinburgh's + week, 1918 : 30th June to 6th July : music festival time table / [City of Edinburgh branch of the British Red Cross Society].
  • Edinburgh's + week, 1918 : 30th June to 6th July : music festival time table / [City of Edinburgh branch of the British Red Cross Society].
  • India : a gathering of Hindu ascetics (sadhus) at a religious festival: in the background, the Union flag flies over a British military fortification. Watercolour, ca. 1880 (?).
  • A face with fangs with a fist emerging from a white spiky form against a turquoise background; advertising a benefit festival in Berlin for AIDS assistance. Colour lithograph, 1994.
  • The Taboo goblins of Urama Employed by the old men of the clan to keep the village in control, and to guard certain fruits and vegetables for use at festival time.
  • Flying kites over old Edo on a festival in early spring; a fire watchtower looms in the foreground and Fuji is visible in the distance. Woodcut by Gekko, early twentieth century.
  • Multicoloured vertical painted lines with details of 'Das Regenbogenfest' [The Rainbow Festival] on Saturday 9 September 1995 at the Slaughterhouse [in Munich], an event organised by the Munich AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph.
  • Festival of Muḥarram: a procession, to commemorate the death of the martyrs, of people carrying banners, pennants and replicas of Husain's mausoleum or the Prophet's tomb. Gouache painting by an Indian painter.
  • End factory farming : national march and rally, Saturday 13 July 2002 : meet at noon at Kennington Park, London SE11 (nearest tube: Oval) : Food for life festival... / Viva! [and others].
  • A Muslim man accompanied by a boy: both with rods and chains piercing their bodies at the festival of Muharram in Shusha, Azerbaijan (?). Etching by R.R. after H. Koch, ca. 1878.
  • End factory farming : national march and rally, Saturday 13 July 2002 : meet at noon at Kennington Park, London SE11 (nearest tube: Oval) : Food for life festival... / Viva! [and others].
  • John Hunter, from the picture by Robert Home. The dog is supposed to have been the offspring of a half-breed wolf-bitch and an English mastiff. On a hunterian Festival menu, 14 February 1923.
  • Chinese festival of Tu-Ti (the Earth God): a group of men are shown playing a game beside a shrine, accompanied by three others playing drums, watched by a woman and two children. Ink drawing, China, 18--?.
  • Actor Nakamura Shikan IV as Danshichi Kurōbei having just disposed of the corpse of his victim down a well; the character is about to escape by joining a passing festival procession. Colour woodcut by Kunisada I, 1855.
  • A cartoon-figure called 'Leo' juggles a video, a bottle, a condom, a syringe and a pill box while standing on a tight-rope above a crater against a starry night sky; advertising the 2nd 'Stop AIDS' festival in Mainz, 1990. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • A rainbow coloured background with details of 'Regenbogenfest 7' [The 7th Rainbow Festival], an event to benefit people with HIV and AIDS and to commemorate the centenary of AIDS-Hilfe Mannheim Ludwigshafen e.V. on Saturday 12 August 1995 at the Mannheimer Schloss. Colour lithograph.
  • Japan: a woman with two girls in festive dress. Colour woodcut, ca. 1900.
  • A figure with an orange beak and a vest bearing the words 'Leo' moving three coloured cups around a green playing board bearing a skull, a pink heart and a clover leaf; an advertisement for the Mainz 'Stop AIDS' Festival on 23 August 1989 at the Kulturzentrum [Mainz], organised by the Landeszentrale für Gesundheitserziehung in Rheinland-Pfalz e.V. Colour lithograph by Klaus.
  • Two men engaged in a mock duel as part of the festivities. Gouache painting on mica by an Indian artist.
  • A festive crowd in a marketplace near a harbour in France in the 2nd. Republic in 1848. Lithograph by M. C. Goldsmid.
  • A festive procession led by Napoleon Bonaparte through the galleries of the Louvre passes jubilant courtiers. Etching by H. Reinhold after B. Zix, 1811.
  • A gay man licks the ear of his companion as they sit on a bench alongside a transvestite holding a fan and a man with a moustache with a crowd beyond; within a border of pink curtains held up by two naked male figures; an advertisement for the Mayence Rosé, the 7th Mainz gay cultural festival held at the Mainzer Kammerspiele [theatre] from 11 to 31 January 1997. Colour lithograph.