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NAPLES -- Descrizione e disegni della mascherata che intervenne al real teatro di S. Carlo il carnevale dell' anno 1827. Naples: Stamperia Reale, 1827.
2° (326 x 239mm). 12 hand-coloured lithographs showing carnival costumes by Cuciniello and Bianchi, including one folding plate comprising 4 sheets by Antonio Nicolini depicting 84 figures in a procession with music printed below. (Some light spotting in text leaves and folding plate.) Marbled-paper-backed buff pastepaper boards (small slit at front hinge).
It is Carneval 1827 and the king of Naples, Francesco I with the royal family enters the theatre of San Carlo costumed in the Persian fashion. The highlight of the great ball is a lively masquerade: members of the nobility dressed like Scots, French and Tartars dance quadrilles for the Shah, while others masquerading as the Parnaso of the Italian Poetry, Dante, Petrarca, Aristo and Tasso, offer poetical tributes to the Court. Lipperheide Si 57.
2° (326 x 239mm). 12 hand-coloured lithographs showing carnival costumes by Cuciniello and Bianchi, including one folding plate comprising 4 sheets by Antonio Nicolini depicting 84 figures in a procession with music printed below. (Some light spotting in text leaves and folding plate.) Marbled-paper-backed buff pastepaper boards (small slit at front hinge).
It is Carneval 1827 and the king of Naples, Francesco I with the royal family enters the theatre of San Carlo costumed in the Persian fashion. The highlight of the great ball is a lively masquerade: members of the nobility dressed like Scots, French and Tartars dance quadrilles for the Shah, while others masquerading as the Parnaso of the Italian Poetry, Dante, Petrarca, Aristo and Tasso, offer poetical tributes to the Court. Lipperheide Si 57.