34 Archives Consulted

Bodleian Library, Chinese Collection, Oxford, UK

Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, UK

First Historical Archives of China, Beijing, China

Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Washington DC, USA

French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centre des archives diplomatiques de Nantes, France

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Archives, Boston, USA

Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Archives, Rome, Italy

Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA

Museum of Fine Arts Archives, Jewell Collection, Boston, USA

National Archives, London, UK

National Palace Museum Archives, Taipei, Taiwan

Royal Archives, Windsor, UK

Royal Collection, Royal Library and Print Room, Windsor, UK

Wellcome Library, Iconographic Collections, London, UK