1697 · Engraving
Observatoire de Pekin
Franz Ertinger; published with text by Louis Le Comte
Why it matters
The ordered, numbered view makes the observatory look like an imperial information system. Its European-designed instruments and Chinese dragon supports embody the court collaboration that missionaries presented as evidence of learned Qing rule.
- Publication
- Illustrations de Nouveaux mémoires sur l'état présent de la Chine
- Holding institution
- Médiathèque du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac; digitized by Bibliothèque nationale de France
- Shelfmark
- ark:/12148/btv1b2300608z, plate 4
Ertinger, Franz. Observatoire de Pekin. In Illustrations de Nouveaux mémoires sur l'état présent de la Chine, 1697. Médiathèque du musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac, ark:/12148/btv1b2300608z.