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
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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