Picart Collection

Scenes of country life, with mythological figure. Engraving by Bernard Picart, from Johann Matthias Gesner, Scriptores rei rusticae veteres Latini: Cato, Varro, Columella, Palladius Frontispiece

Witches Sabbat (Picart)
Satan presides while dancers cavort before him, the cooks throw babies into the stewpot and diners enjoy a nourishing cannibal feast

Spencer Perceval / Picart
SPENCER PERCEVAL son of 2nd Earl Egmont, opposed Catholic emancipation, insisted on continuance of Napoleonic war, made banknotes legal tender, assassinated

Synagogue dedication / Picart
The dedication of the Portuguese Jewish Synagogue at Amsterdam

Social gathering in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Social gathering of friends and family to prepare for a wedding in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in which the guests put together leaves, flowers and coins to throw over the couple at the wedding

A Baptism according to the Greek Church in Russia Date: circa 1730s

ENGLISH FUNERAL PICART
Part of the custom of death in England in the Georgian period. The corpse dressed in a shroud & laid-out in a body- shaped coffin. Mourners take sprigs of Rosemary. Date: 1737

Bernard Picart Oval
BERNARD PICART Prolific French artist and engraver : we have many hundreds of his prints, mainly on mythical and religious subjects. Date: 1673 - 1733

Addison / Gardner / Picart
JOSEPH ADDISON English essayist, poet and statesman Date: 1672 - 1719

Rejouissances des mexicains, au commencement du siecle (The rejoicing of Mexicans at the start of the Century). Celebration of the beginning of Aztec century, consisting of a 52-year cycle

Inca Marriage / Picart
An Inca wedding ceremony, subtitled How the Incas marries those of his own blood

Joannes XVIII (Picart)
POPE JOANNES XVIII (Phasinus)

7 Wonders / Diana / Picart
Built by the Greeks, almost entirely from marble, in Ephesus, now part of Turkey. Destroyed by Herostratus in 356 BC in an attempt to immortalise his name

Quaker Meeting / Picart
A Quaker meeting - a woman preaches from the gallery

James I (Picart)

7 Wonders / Babylon / Picart
Allegedly built by Nebushadnezzar II for his wife Amyitis, who missed her homeland, Iraq. They were grown on terraces & used water from the Euphrates River

7 Wonders / Zeus / Picart
The statue was carved by the Greek sculptor Phidias around 435 BC from ivory. It was slowly destroyed by fire, floods, earthquakes and landslides

7 Wonders / Rhodes / Picart
A bronze statue of Apollo, 100 feet high, erected at the entrance of the harbour of Rhodes in about 280 BC. An earthquake in 224 BC caused it to fall from its pedestals

7 Wonders / Pahros / Picart
Constructed by Sostratus of Cnidus, for Ptolemy Philadelphus: iIts light could be seen 50 km out to sea

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