"Clothing of the Mughal," a Dutch engraving from 1667 with a Chinese-looking backdrop

Source: ebay, Dec. 2004

"Copper engraving of the costume of Mogor / Mogul, most likely by A.v. Diepenbeck (not signed), from “Kerkelijke Historie van de gehele wereld” ( “Religious Histry of the whole world”) , by Cornelis Hazart ( Society of Jesus). Printed in 1667."

A Dutch vision by Hieronymus Xaverius, 1667: a Jesuit depicted as disputing with Muslim theologians before "the King of the Mogor"

Source: ebay, Nov. 2002




A depiction of the Great Mogul from 'Toonneel van China ' ('China Monumentis Illustrata'), by Athanasius Kircherus (Kircher), father of the Soc. Jesu, translated by J.H. Glazemaker, published by J.Janssonius van Waesberge, Amsterdam, in 1668.

Source: ebay, Nov. 2012






"A rare case of murder in the year 1644," from Philip Baldaeus, 'Nauwkeurige beschrijving Malabar en Choromandel, derz. aangrenzend rijken, en het machtige eiland Ceylon' (Description of the East Indian Countries of Malabar, Coromandel, Ceylon, etc.), Amsterdam, 1672; *the whole page*

Source: ebay, Sept. 2014



Two views of "Le Grand Mogol" as imagined by *MALLET* (German edition, 1685); click on the second image for a very large scan (courtesy of Alfred Eriksson)

Source: ebay, July 2007

Not to speak of the Great Mogol, *MALLET* and other mapmakers were not even sure about the course of the Ganges (1683): *North India*; *South India*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2007




A depiction of the Mughal court from 'Asia: the first part... The Vast Empire of the Great Mogol and Other Parts of India...' by John Ogilby, London, 1673; also *"Rauchenara Begum"*

Source: ebay, Mar. 2013

A depiction of the Mughal court, from 1702; *the elephant*; *the top caption*; *the bottom caption*

Source: ebay, May 2007

"Aurengzeeb, King of the Mogols," by Isaac Tirion, 1731

Source: ebay, Nov. 2006

From "Modern History: or, the Present State of all Nations," by Thomas Salmon, London, 1739

Source: ebay, May 2007

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