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John Pinkerton: Austrian Dominions.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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John Pinkerton (1758–1826)  wikidata:Q3446354 s:en:Author:John Pinkerton
 
John Pinkerton
Alternative names
Pinkerton, John
Description Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, numismatist and historian
Date of birth/death 17 February 1758 Edit this at Wikidata 10 March 1826 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Edinburgh Edit this at Wikidata Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q3446354
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Austrian Dominions.
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English: Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of the Austrian Dominions. Covers the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the height of its influence. Includes Bohemia, Tyrol, Austria, Croatia, Sclavonia, Hungary, Transylvania, and parts of Poland. Offers considerable detail with political divisions and color coding at the regional level. Identifies cities, towns, castles, important battle sites, castles, swamps, mountains and river ways. Title plate in the upper left quadrant. Two mile scales, in German and British Statute Miles, also appear in the upper left quadrant. Drawn by L. Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton. This map comes from the scarce American edition of Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas, published by Thomas Dobson & Co. of Philadelphia in 1818.
Date 1818 (undated)
Dimensions height: 20.5 in (52 cm); width: 28 in (71.1 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,20.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,28U218593
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Pinkerton, J., A Modern Atlas, from the Lates and Best Authorities, Exhibiting the Various Divisions of the World with its chief Empires, Kingdoms, and States; in Sixty Maps, carefully reduced from the Larges and Most Authentic Sources. 1818, Philadelphia, Thomas Dobson Edition.

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