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Prospect of the Inner Court of the Palace at Pekin (from Johannes Nieuhof's "An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China," London, 1669)

Author Related author Johannes Nieuhof Dutch
1669
Not on view
The print appears on page 126 of the related book and shows the inner court of the Emperor's palace at Peking, seen from a height, with ambassadors kneeling and standing at center foreground, supervised by a herald, and figures tending to twelve horses behind, facing one another in two lines, and guards lined up on three sides in front of the buildings.

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Object Information
  • Title: Prospect of the Inner Court of the Palace at Pekin (from Johannes Nieuhof's "An Embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China," London, 1669)
  • Artist: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Author: Related author Johannes Nieuhof (Dutch, Uelsen 1618–1672 Madagascar)
  • Date: 1669
  • Medium: Etching; cut within platemark and state cannot be determined
  • Dimensions: Sheet: 8 1/16 × 11 9/16 in. (20.4 × 29.4 cm)
    cut within platemark
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
  • Object Number: 20.81.2.100
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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