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)
Wenceslaus Hollar Bohemian
Related author Johannes Nieuhof Dutch
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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