A man is opening a door to reveal the landscape of China; cherubim playing with a map and a globe showing China as described by Martino Martini. Engraving, ca. 1655.

  • Martini, Martino, 1614-1661.
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[1655?]
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567607i
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A man is opening a door to reveal the landscape of China; cherubim playing with a map and a globe showing China as described by Martino Martini. Engraving, ca. 1655. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Above, a pediment with a blank frieze; not the allegorical scene which appears on the titlepage to the 1655 edition of the Novus atlas sinensis

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[Amsterdam?] : [Blaeu?], [1655?]

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1 print : engraving ; image 42.7 x 26.5 cm

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Novus atlas sinensis, a Martino Martinio Soc. Jesu descriptus et Serenissimo Archiduci Leopoldo Guilielmo Austriaco dedicatus... The man says "Clausa recludo", meaning "I open up things which are closed"

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Wellcome Collection 567607i

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