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Take a look at the scene from the Via del Corso in Rome during carnival, 1836. I magnified the thing in question. A turnip in the crowd?
After intensive research and scrutinizing…, wouldn't it be the back of a carnival “char” (chariot) ?
With a smiling face on it? With its right hand up to its mouth? Here's where I got the original image from…you might be able to zoom in some more.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Carnaval_de_Rome%2C_via_del_Corso%2C_1836.JPG
I've checked it again, you can find the full original book here : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k31419b.image.f58.langEN , a digitised copy of “Le Magasin pittoresque” ed. 1836, p. 54-58 (see picture below)However, nowhere this head is considered as special or turnip-like, except, perhaps, as a kind of brain teaser for erudite of the future 😉What about the second document from Hans Glaser ?
Looks like a turnip-guy to me. Maybe the artist enjoyed a littttle too much heroin(I mean opium) before drawing the picture.
