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The prettiest part of the Ahr valley is at and about Walporzheim, which the Düsseldorf artists have, by reason of its famous wine quite as much as of its romantic scenery, chosen for the place of their frequent feasts, half picnic, half masque, when their get-up rivals that of any carnival, not even excepting that of the "Krewe of Komus" or those other displays peculiar to Belgium and Holland of which the late celebration of the "Pacification of Ghent" was an example.
[Footnote 87: “Der Reisegefährte,” Berlin, 1785-86. “Komus oder der Freund des Scherzes und der Laune,” Berlin, 1806. “Museum des Witzes der Laune und der Satyre,” Berlin, 1810. For reviews of Coriat in German periodicals see Gothaische Gelehrte Zeitungen, 1774, p.
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