Devil holds court
This post is image-heavy -- it will load slowly.Given that Rosenmontag is coming up, I am posting some images from (the long) nineteenth-century Carnivals in the lower Rhine. (Taken from the book Der organisiearte Narr by Christina Frohn.) Click on images to enlarge.
The Spaßvogel
Krefeld 1828
Aachen 1889
The Devil holds Court in Cologne 1835
Illustration by Fikentscher 1872
Carnival Song from Cologne 1912
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