2-704-414 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Sacrifice d'un Agneau noir, le jour de la grande Fete du Soleil', 1723. Sacrifice of a black sheep, on the day of the great Festival of the Sun. From "Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde", (Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World), by Jean-Frédéric Bernard, illustrated by Bernard Picart. Although Picart never left Europe, he relied on accounts by those who had. The book 'marked a major turning point in European attitudes toward religious belief and hence the sacred'. [Amsterdam, 1723-1737].