File:Confucius - Jean-Baptiste Du Halde.gif

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Description "Kong-Fù-Tsë or Confucius: the most Celebrated Philosopher of China", an illustration from The History of China, an English translation of Du Halde's 1735 French Description of China, whose engraver based his image on that found in the 1687 Latin translation of the Analects. The English image is a mirror version of the French one.
Date After 1735, based on a 1735 image, modeled after a 1687 original
Source http://www.rulon.com/Catpages/extra.htm
Author Illegible, but based upon J.C. Philips's illustration for Du Halde
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Other versions
  • Description of China (1736), low quality
    Description of China (1736), low quality
  • Description of China (1736)
    Description of China (1736)
  • Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), low quality
    Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), low quality
  • Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), bw
    Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), bw
  • Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), frontispiece
    Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), frontispiece
  • Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), portrait
    Confucius, the Philosopher of the Chinese (1687), portrait

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