Shown right is one of 20 hand-coloured plates from Masken des Römischen Carnevals. This was a rare and separate 1790 Weimar issue of the plates that illustrated a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Roman carnivals published the previous year – an item that is itself a great rarity*.
The drawings were the work of Goethe’s friend Georg Schulz and the plates were engraved and coloured by Melchior Krauss.