Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses des peuples idolatres : avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses
This is a multi-volume ethnographic compendium of religious ceremonies and customs of non-Christian peoples, compiled by the engraver Bernard Picard and published in Amsterdam in 1723 by J. F. Bernard for a learned European readership. Its copperplate engravings show ritual dances, sacrifices, processions and temple scenes, with dense hatching and crowded compositions that a designer could draw on for period crowd staging, costume detail and classical-style figure groupings.
