Street scene during carnival, with masked and grotesque revellers engaged in promiscuous activity; at left, women meeting with their lovers at windows; at centre, a nude female acrobat bending backwards with her arms and legs within a hoop, at right, a man playing a barrel organ, a performing dog, and a woman with her skirts pulled up to her waist, holding up a tambourine to spectators at windows, one of whom, a turbaned man with a long pipe, urinates onto the ground below; on a raised platform behind at right, a performance with a masked man giving a nun (?) an enema, a crowd looking on from below. Etching with stipple. Date: 1790-1810 (c.). Dimensions: Height: 178 mm; Width: 222 mm (trimmed). Medium: paper. Collection: British Museum. Carnival at Venice. (BM 1977,U.559)
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