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Funeral Activities
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Between 1723 and 1737, illustrator Bernard Picart partnered with the Dutch bookseller, editor, and publisher Jean-Frédéric Bernard on Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (R…

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Bernard Picart

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1723–1743

Subjects:

Life cycle, Death, Mourning, Cemetery, Ritual & observance

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Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture
Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top showing men in large room walking in circle with books, the bottom showing men shoveling dirt onto grave.
Ouderkerk aan de Amstel Cemetery, Gravestone
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Manuel Levy Ximenes Belmonte (1729) and Esther de Pinto (1741)

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

First Half of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Gravestones, Cemetery, Burial, Mourning, Death

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Inscriptions
Tombstone with crest on top, and twin columns of text below.