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68 | Philippe Bornet www.jrfm.eu 2021, 7/2, 55–86 figure surrounded by trumpet players, is referenced as “engraved by [Wil- liam?] Angus from a drawing by [William Marshall?] Craig”. The depicted scene does not bear much resemblance to anything actual: the chariot has nothing to do with a South Indian tēr and the deity certainly does not look like Jagannath. The painter, probably William Marshall Craig (d. 1827), there- fore likely conceived the visual elements after a text and his own imagina- tion. The image features the classic motif of a person crushed by the char- iot, generally interpreted a sign of religious fanaticism. In its republished version, the image removes the scene from its natural setting of clouds and trees and relocates it in the middle of Hindu temples and an ecstatic crowd. With that transposition, the image loses the aesthetic qualities of the origi- nal, and its visual message becomes purely polemical. Another depiction related to rituals shows practitioners engaging in as- tonishing bodily postures. Here the images do not seem to have been fabri- Fig. 6: Panel 32, “India: religion”, Bilder-Tafeln, Calwer Verlagsverein. Fig 7: Henry Lord / Jean-Frédéric Bernard / Bernard Picart, Dissertation sur les moeurs et sur la religion des Bramines, in: Moeurs et coutumes de tous les peoples du monde, 1723, vol.  1, part. 1, between pages 68 and 69.