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29th June 1994
A Bedford van delivers papers to a newspaper seller outside Farringdon underground station
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seated and posed in half-profile
Title page to Nieuhoff's 'An embassy from the East-India Company' uproar 29th June 1994Title page to the book An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperour of China., by John Nieuhoff (London, 1669). The Emperor of China sits in a throne, his left hand rests on a globe, he is surrounded by figures; an aid holds a parasol over him. Manacled figures kneel in the foreground. John Nieuhoff (1618 1672), Dutch traveller, was appointed steward of the mission to China under Peter van Goyer and
