This print, which is probable based on the work of the painter Peter Paul Rubens, is the title page of the Atlas Sinensis. The author of the atlas, which was the first atlas of China published in Europe, was the Italian jesuit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martino_Martini" class="extiw" title="en:Martino Martini">Martino Martini</a> (1614-1661) who committed a large part of his life to missionary work in China. His atlas was based for the greater part on Chinese sources and was published from 1655 in several languages by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Blaeu" class="extiw" title="en:Joan Blaeu">Joan Blaeu</a> (1598-1673).
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19972007" class="extiw" title="d:Q19972007"><span title="Dutch artist">Dirk Jansz van Santen</span></a>
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