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The title page shows three antique masks arranged around a decorated amphora. Lips may play here on the Saturnalia to which the carnival goes back and which were celebrated in ancient Rome as a reminiscence of the Golden Age of Saturn. Designated: Sculpture under the depiction on the left "H. Lips fec.“Printed above the plate in the middle” DAS RÖMIC CARNEVAL “; under the plate in the middle” Berlin, "bey Johann Friedrich Unger.“Among them,” Weimar und Gotha, “including” In Commission bey Carl Wilhelm Ettinger, “among them the year” 1789. " Published in: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: The Roman Carnival, Weimar & Gotha: Unger for Ettinger 1789. (Frankfurt Goethe House/Free German Hochstift)