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  • A coffin layed out on a bier in a chapel surrounded by a choir. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • Ruth, having gleaned barley in a field owned by Boaz, is given hospitality by him. Engraving attributed to B. Picart.
  • A funeral cortège in the city of Amsterdam. Engraving with etching.
  • Left, a young man avoiding being burnt at the stake for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition by recanting; left, a young woman avoiding being burned alive by recanting after the judgement. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • A new-born baby being baptised by a midwife in the mother's bedroom. Etching by B. Picart.
  • The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: confession (penance). Etching by B. Picart.
  • An interrogation room of the Spanish Inquisition with two priests and an accused heretic. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • A Portugese Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1722.
  • The ceremonies of a papal funeral. Etching by Picart after himself, 1724.
  • A group of Greek women lamenting and mourning the dead at a burial site in Rama. Engraving possibly by B. Picart, ca. 1733.
  • Instruments and sacred objects to perform a Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1725.
  • A Portugese Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1722.
  • Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • Instruments and sacred objects to perform a Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1725.
  • The personification of the Republic of Holland is surrounded by representations of religion, liberty, peace, navigation, commerce, fortune and abundance, as well as Asia, Africa and America; representing the glory of the Republic of Holland. Engraving by B. Picart.
  • A secret marriage (?) in England which is being watched by some men and women from outside. Engraving by or after B. Picart.
  • A rosary, a medallion of St Benedict, a charm said to cause loss of eyesight, and hands showing lines and features to be interpreted by palmistry (including lines forecasting violent death); all illustrating 'superstition'. Engraving.
  • Cow's urine used as a medical treatment in India: a sick man is held over a cow's hindquarters, so that the cow's urine streams onto his face. Engraving after B. Picart, 1728.
  • Six rites of the Roman Catholic Church: the procession of the Holy Oils; the blessing of the Holy Oils; a bishop is received during a visit to his diocese; the bishop's pastoral exhortation; the kissing of the bishop's hand and the bishop's lying in state. Etching after B. Picart.
  • The Patriarch of the Greek Orthodox congregation of the Holy Grave in Jerusalem distributes the Holy Light at Easter; members of the congregation fight for it. Etching after B. Picart, 1730.
  • (Left) a celebration of the birth of a child, (right) the child's first bath. Etching by B. Picart after himself, 1726.
  • Putti perform an anatomical dissection on a dog; others hold a jar containing a human foetus; two more play with a spider; representing anatomy and natural history. Etching by B. Picart, 1729.
  • A priest administering extreme unction to a dying man in a bedchamber with a makeshift altar. Etching by B. Picart, 1724.
  • A funeral in the city of the Hague in Holland. Engraving with etching by B. Picart, 1732.
  • A priest administering the Eucharist to a dying man. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Putti study the plants in a botanical garden; representing botany. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: burial of the dead. Etching after B. Picart.
  • The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church; confession (penance). Etching after B. Picart.
  • Left, the banner of the Spanish Inquisition; right banner of the Inquisition in Goa. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Left, a man convicted of heresy in the Spanish Inquisition; right, a nun that escaped being burned at the stake by recanting. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.