File:1818 Pinkerton Map of Holland or the Netherlands - Geographicus - Holland-pinkerton-1818.jpg
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John Pinkerton: Holland. ( ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q3446354 |
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Holland. |
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Description |
English: Pinkerton's extraordinary 1818 map of Holland. Covers what is essentially today's Netherlands between the Belgium and Germany. Offers excellent undersea detail regarding various shoals and other dangers, including the Broad Fourteen Sand. Also shows the elaborate system of canals and irrigation networks throughout the region. 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 Dutch and German Miles and British Statute Miles, also appear in the lower right 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. |
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Date | 1818 (undated) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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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Geographicus link: Holland-pinkerton-1818 |
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Source/Photographer |
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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