Bidspirit auction | Pivati Gianfrancesco - Pariah Way

Pivati Gianfrancesco - Pariah Way of healing fevered people and Funeral Ceremony - Etching on paper (1746/51) - Pariah Way of healing fevered people and Funeral Ceremony is a fine etching, hand-watercolored, realized by the engraver Gianfrancesco Pivati. This original print, representing a Pariah (Indian) way of healing fevered people and a funeral ceremony, is from the series New Scientific and Curious Dictionary concerning the Sacred and the Profane, Tome VIII, Plate LXXIV, published by Benedetto Milocco in Venice in 1746-1751, concerning the Uses and Costumes, Religious Rites of Asian people.