A Sketch at the Carnival

Townley Green, artist

Edward Dalziel, engraver

Wood engraving

The section on Rome in Dickens's Pictures from Italy

Scanned image and text by Philip V. Allingham

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This second illustration from the Household Edition of Pictures from Italy, published in a single volume with Dickens's other travelogue, American Notes for General Circulation, is intended to complement the author's impressions of the last two days of the carnival he witnessed at Rome's Piazza del Popolo and the Corso just prior to Lent:

a man-monkey on a pole, surrounded by strange animals with pigs' faces and lions' tails, carried under their arms, or worn gracefully over their shoulders; carriages on carriages, dresses on dresses, colours on colours, crowds upon crowds, without end.

References

Dickens, Charles. Works. "Collier's Unabridged Edition." New York: P. F. Collier, 1880, III, 236. (These illustrations originally appeared in the British Household Edition of the 1870s.)

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Last modified 28 August 2007