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English:
A portrait of German Jesuit
Johann Adam Schall von Bell
(1592–1666), who was a
Jesuit missionary in China
(
Ming
and
Qing
dynasties) from 1622 to his death in 1666. Hand-colored engraving, 31.1 x 21 cm.
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Date | |
Source | " P. Adam Schall Germanus I. Ordinis Mandarinus " ("Father Adam Schall , the German mandarin of the first order"), 1667, from Athanasius Kircher , Tooneel van China... , trans. Jan Hendrick Glazemaker (Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1668), plate Bb, after page 138. Scanned from Marcia Reed, "A Perfume is Best from Afar: Publishing China for Europe," in China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century , ed. by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute , 2007), p. 15. |
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