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Nederlands:
Mogolsche gezant
[1]
from
Legatio Batavica ad magnum Tartariae Chamum Sungteium, modernum Sinae imperatorem. Historiarum narratione, quae legatis in provinciis Quantung, Kiangsi, Nanking, Xantung, Peking, & aula imperatoria ab anno 1655 ad annum 1657
, p. 153
English:
"Moghul embassy", seen by the Dutch visitors in Beijing in 1656. According to Lach & Kley (1993), modern historians (namely,
en:Luciano Petech
) think that the emissaries portrayed had actually come from Turfan, and not all the way from the Moghul India
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| Date | Published in German edition in 1666, presumably reproduced from the 1665 Dutch edition. Must have been originally drawn during the Dutch embassy's visit to Beijing, in 1656 |
| Source | Johann Nieuhof, "Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in der Vereinigten Niederländern an der tartarischen Cham und nunmehr auch sinischen Keiser", Amsterdam, 1666. Page 189. Reproduced many times since; this reproduction is from Lach & Kley, "Asia in the Making of Europe", Volume III, Book Four, plate 315 |
| Author | most likely Johann Nieuhoff himself (as per Lach and Kley, 1993), or a member of his delegation |
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