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  • A funeral cortège in the city of Amsterdam. Engraving with etching.
  • 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.
  • King Charles I. Engraving by B. Picart, 1729, after A. van Dyck.
  • 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.
  • 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 new-born baby being baptised by a midwife in the mother's bedroom. Etching by B. Picart.
  • A boy weeping (left) and a man weeping (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • The sacrament of the Roman Catholic church: confession (penance). Etching by B. Picart.
  • Cupid prevents a satyr from taking advantage of Venus as she sleeps. Etching by Bernard Picart after himself.
  • Telemachus. Etching by J. Folkema, 1733, after B. Picart.
  • An interrogation room of the Spanish Inquisition with two priests and an accused heretic. Engraving by B. Picart, 1722.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) cured of a potentially fatal wound with some rust from Achilles' spear, with which he had originally been wounded. Engraving by B. Picart, 1730, after P. Brebiette.
  • A Portugese Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1722.
  • Children being bathed at a bath-house in a foundling hospital in Moscow. Engraving by C. Warren, c. 1810, after B. Picart.
  • 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.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) cured of a potentially fatal wound with some rust from Achilles' spear, with which he had originally been wounded. Engraving by B. Picart, 1730, after P. Brebiette.
  • Instruments and sacred objects to perform a Jewish circumcision ceremony. Engraving, 1741, after B. Picart, 1725.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • A church service in the Armenian Orthodox Church. Engraving by T. Brown after B. Picart.
  • Hercules rescuing Hesione from a sea-monster. Engraving by B. Picart after C. Le Brun.
  • 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.
  • A Lutheran funeral in the city of Augsburg. Engraving by B. Picart, 1732, after Catherine Sperling.