File:1818 Pinkerton Map of India (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka) - Geographicus - India-pinkerton-1818.jpg

From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Original file ‎(4,212 × 5,000 pixels, file size: 5.8 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)

Captions

Captions

Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents
John Pinkerton: Hindostan   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
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
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q3446354
Title
Hindostan
Description
English: John Pinkerton's highly decorative map of India, published 1818. Covers the subcontinent from Tibet to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and from the mouth of the Indus to the Kingdom of Pegu (Burma or Myanmar). Includes the modern day countries of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Bangladesh, and parts of Burma, China, and Afghanistan, including the cities of Kabul and Kandahar. This stunning map offers excellent detail throughout with color coding indicating various political divisions and princely states. Names countless important cities including Delhi, Agra, Lhasa, Kathmandu, Goa, Bombay, Calcutta, Colombo, Dacca, Patna, and others. Occasionally offers comments on inland river navigation and speculative notations such as the Supposed course of the Aracan River. Also offers wonderful notations regarding caravan and trade routes. One such describes a Night stage in a cave on the Himalayan transverse north of Lucknow. Names urban centers, palaces, fortifications, battle sites, swamps, mountains and river systems. Lower right hand quadrant features three scales, British Miles and Rajput Cosses, and Hindustan Cosses. 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: 24.5 in (62.2 cm); width: 20 in (50.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,24.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,20U218593
Accession number
Geographicus link: India-pinkerton-1818
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.

Permission
(Reusing this file)
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:
Public domain

This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 100 years or fewer.

You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States.
This file has been identified as being free of known restrictions under copyright law, including all related and neighboring rights.
The official position taken by the Wikimedia Foundation is that "faithful reproductions of two-dimensional public domain works of art are public domain".
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the United States. In other jurisdictions, re-use of this content may be restricted; see Reuse of PD-Art photographs for details.

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current06:50, 23 March 2011Thumbnail for version as of 06:50, 23 March 20114,212 × 5,000 (5.8 MB)BotMultichillT (talk | contribs){{subst:User:Multichill/Geographicus |link=http://www.geographicus.com/P/AntiqueMap/India-pinkerton-1818 |product_name=1818 Pinkerton Map of India (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tibet, Nepal, Sri Lanka) |map_title=Hindostan |description=John Pinkerton's highly d

You cannot overwrite this file.

File usage on other wikis

The following other wikis use this file:

Retrieved from "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:1818_Pinkerton_Map_of_India_(Pakistan,_Afghanistan,_Tibet,_Nepal,_Sri_Lanka)_-_Geographicus_-_India-pinkerton-1818.jpg&oldid=819748594"