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Description: "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
Title: Nieuhof-p-189-Mogolsche-gezant-Lach-van-Kley-plate-315
Credit: 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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