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John Pinkerton: Peru.   (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
Title
Peru.
Description
English: This is John Pinkerton's stunning 1818 map of Peru. Covers the western parts of South America from the Gulf of Guayaquil, in modern Ecuador to Lake Titicaca, modern Peru-Bolivia, and inland well into the Amazon and what is today Brazil. This beautifully rendered map is truly a masterpiece of engraving, with mountain ranges, lakes, deserts, and rivers excited with such precision that the result appears almost three dimensional.
  • Pinkerton injects astounding detail throughout with countless towns, cities, geographical features, rivers, islands and bodies of water noted. This map offers a smorgasbord of speculative cartography - especially in the largely unexplored eastern regions and the Amazon basin.
  • Pinkerton names countless indigenous groups, numerous speculative river systems, questionable mountains and mountain ranges, and a number of notes relating to the supposed discoveries of this or that explorer. The lowlands to the west of the Andes are mapped with considerable precision, contrasting sharply with the less known regions to the east and reflecting some of the challenges in administering Peru's easternmost provinces.
  • One of the finest British atlas maps of Peru to appear in the 19th century. Drawn by L. Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton. This map was issued in the scarce American edition of Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas, published by Thomas Dobson & Co. of Philadelphia in 1818.
Date 1818 (undated)
Dimensions height: 28 in (71.1 cm); width: 21 in (53.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,28U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,21U218593
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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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