Author: [MÖRNER, Carl Gustaf Hjalmar].
Title: Il carnevale di Roma.Rome, F. Bourlié, 1820. Oblong folio (ca. 42 x 57 cm). With 20 numbered copper-engravings. Grey paper wrappers.
Description: [1 blank], [2], [20] ll.Remarkable work with 20 beautiful engravings of the Roman carnival, made by Carl Gustaf Hjalmar Mörner (1794-1837). The illustrations show the atmosphere during the carnival and depict more than 250 costumed figures, including soldiers, doctors, stilt walkers, masked figures and fools, wearing dated 18th-century fashion or more modern regency styles. They also show the activities that visitors of the carnival engaged in, like horse racing and dancing. The plates are meant to be studied in sequence and start at the Piazza del Popolo and end at the present day Piazza Venezia. They are preceded by a short explanation of each plate in Italian. The work is a good example of the Romantic movement popular at the time, which, among other things, celebrated folk art and traditional cultural practices.Mörner was a Swedish artist who travelled through Europe. He spent some time in Rome as a house-guest and friend of the Swedish sculptor Johan Niclas Byström (1783-1848), where he made this finely detailed depiction of the Roman carnival. He gifted the originals to his host, who mounted them on the walls of his home as a frieze. Mörner was very likely inspired by the Italian artist Bartolomeo Pinelli (1781-1835), who made similar folkloristic illustrations.The edges of the wrappers and internal leaves are slightly frayed, with some loss of material on the spine, the front wrapper is somewhat stained. Otherwise in very good condition.l Colas 530; Hiler 622; Lipperheide Sn 22 (former 2864); Thieme/Becker 25, p. 13.

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