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Description: The "Old Viceroy" (feudatory prince) of Guangdong (i.e., Shang Kexi) drawn by the Dutch visitors in Guangzhou ca. 1655.
Title: Shang-Kexi-0099
Credit: Johann Nieuhof, "Die Gesantschaft der Ost-Indischen Geselschaft in der Vereinigten Niederländern an der tartarischen Cham und nunmehr auch sinischen Keiser", Amsterdam, 1666. Reproduced many times since; this reproduction is from Lach & Kley, "Asia in the Making of Europe", Volume III, Book Four, plate 323 Page 45, "An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Province to the Grand Tartar Cham emperour of China. Deliv. by Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer: Wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, etc. in their passages from Canton to Peking, are ingeniously described by Mr. JOHN NIEUHOFF, Steward to the AMBASSADOURS" By Joan Nieuhof, Pieter ¬de Goyer, Athanasius Kircher, John Ogilby
Author: most likely Johann Nieuhoff himself (as per Lach and Kley, 1993), or a member of his delegation
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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