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John Pinkerton: Australasia.   (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 Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q3446354
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Australasia.
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English: Truly a masterwork of copperplate engraving, this is Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of Australia, New Zealand and parts of the East Indies and Polynesia. Covers from Borneo south past Australia as far as Tasmania, and New Zealand. Pinkerton offers detail as he is able, but in 1808, when this map was being composed, this part of the world remained for the most part unexplored. New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia, had, around this time, been mapped only tentatively and then only their coastlines. In Southern Australia and New Guinea, even this was vague, as Pinkerton notes along the coast, Very Imperfectly Known. Only two significant islands are shown for New Zealand with Rakiura Island attached to the mainland. All around Australia, Pinkerton offers copious notations regarding the activities of various exploring missions to the region, including P. Nuyt, Dinnings, Edels, C. F. De Witt, Esdracht, Dampier, Van Diemen, and others. In Polynesia the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Fiji , Queen Charlottes Archipelago, and the Solomon Islands are identified. For the most part, the interiors of all the lands herein depicted are unknown and consequently left blank. Possibly the finest mapping of the region to appear in the first years 19th century. 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: 27.5 in (69.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,20.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,27.5U218593
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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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