File:Adam Schall (detail).jpg

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English: Detail of a larger portrait of German Jesuit Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592–1666), who was a Jesuit missionary in China (Ming and Qing dynasties) from 1622 to his death in 1666.
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Source "P. Adam Schall Germanus I. Ordinis Mandarinus" ("Father Adam Schall, the German mandarin of the first order"), 1667, from Athanasius Kircher, Tooneel van China..., trans. Jan Hendrick Glazemaker (Amsterdam: Johannes Janssonius van Waesberge, 1668), plate Bb, after page 138. Scanned from Marcia Reed, "A Perfume is Best from Afar: Publishing China for Europe," in China on Paper: European and Chinese Works from the Late Sixteenth to the Early Nineteenth Century, ed. by Marcia Reed and Paola Demattè (Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2007), p. 15.
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