Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde : avec une explication historique, & quelques dissertations curieuses
A 1723 Amsterdam compendium of religious ceremonies and customs of the world, compiled and engraved by Bernard Picart and published by J. F. Bernard for an educated European readership interested in comparative religion. Its plates are framed copperplate engravings in grid layouts, each cell a small scene of clergy, processions, altars and crowds in formal architectural interiors, with captions in French beneath; a designer could take their dense, orderly staging and tidy hierarchy of figures as a model for crowded editorial or historical compositions.
