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  • A street carnival in Bogotá, with a battle between personifications of medicine and disease. Watercolour by F.-D. Roulin, 1822/1828.
  • Carnival at Cuzco: a small Indian woman with a clyster pulls at a sheet worn by a man, who is holding an uprooted tree; representing malaria. Wood engraving by T. Hildebrand after E. Riou, 1869.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • Rome: a crowd of revellers in the Corso celebrate the end of carnival by snuffing out candles. Etching by B. Pinelli, 1830.
  • A washing line bearing two inflated condoms and a red and yellow flag representing a safe-sex advertisement during the Brazilian Carnival by Gapa/BS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • Carnival / Cunard White Star.
  • Two boys tease a carnival reveller wearing a grotesque mask, while a third boy blows a horn. Colour lithograph after L. Boilly, 1824.
  • Months of the year: February, in which people celebrate carnival by over-indulgence, frost-fairs etc. Engraving after P. Stevens II.