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  • Two faces, one in outline, expressing horror. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two outlines of faces showing astonishment and fear (left) and laughter (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Heraclitus. Line engraving by Dupin after Picart.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by B. Picart, 1729, after A. van Dyck.
  • Outlines of faces making mixed and contrary muscular movements (left) and sadness and dejection (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A boy weeping (left) and a man weeping (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two faces representing fear and sadness, left and right respectively. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two male faces expressing anger mingled with fear. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.
  • A Lutheran funeral in the city of Augsburg. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732, after Catherine Sperling.
  • Head of a woman expressing desire (left); head of a woman expressing hope (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two outlines of faces, one showing violent movement (left), the other expressing jealousy (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A shrouded woman (the Virgin Mary?) expressing veneration (left); a young man with inclining head also expressing veneration (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Two faces (one outlined, the other of a long-haired youth) expressing esteem. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A dying Parsee with a small dog held with its muzzle to his mouth, to receive his departing soul. Engraving attributed to C. du Bosc after B. Picart, ca. 1730.
  • Outline of a face expressing veneration; profile of a male face expressing veneration or a state of attention. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Proserpine, represented by a personification of night. Engraving by B. Picart after J.M. Raon.
  • Christ healing a man with the palsy. Engraving by W. de Broen after B. Picart.
  • Melpomene, Polyhymnia and Erato. Etching by G. Duchange after B. Picart after E. Le Sueur.
  • Top: Chinese men seeking alms by threatening to kill themselves by self-mutilation, one (left) kneeling to hit his head against a rock, and the other (right) with burning herbs on his head; below, a monk being whipped as a punishment for promiscuity. Engraving by C. Du Bosc after B. Picart after J. Nieuhof.
  • Children being bathed at a bath-house in a foundling hospital in Moscow. Engraving by C. Warren, c. 1810, after B. Picart.
  • A dying man receiving extreme unction from a priest while surrounded by servants and his grieving family. Etching by A. Baratti after A. Novelli after B. Picart.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.
  • The ceremonies and religious customs of the various nations of the known world. Together with historical annotations, and several curious discourses... / Written originally in French, and illustrated with a large number of folio copper plates ... designed by Mr. Bernard Picart ... Faithfully translated into English, by a gentleman some time since of St. John's College in Oxford.