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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Left foreground, a tavern, outside of which a large crowd on a terrace celebrate carnival by eating, getting drunk, making love, and sleeping off their indulgences. Masked actors stage mock performances among them, accompanied by a man dressed as a Turk. Centre, a horse-drawn carriage drives towards a city in which people are enjoying bull-baiting, riding horse-drawn sleighs on ice, etc. Masked actors and musicians perform on a stage in the right foreground and on another stage in the city in the background. Top centre, the constellation Pisces
Publication/Creation
[Venice] : Marco Sadeler excudit
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; image and border 20.2 x 28.7 cm
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Februarius. ; Petrus Stephani inven.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 46410i
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