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Last Name Pinkerton

Given Name John

alt. Names J. P. ;

Marriage

Children

Year born 1758 in Edinburgh

Year died 1826

Place of death Paris ?

Father's occupation James Pinkterton

Relatives

Education Edinburgh University

Country of Activity United Kingdom

Worked for map "Japan and Korea" (London 1809) ; Pinkerton's Modern Atlas (1808-15) ; New Modern Atlas (1808–1819) ;

Patronage

Collaborators John Thomson & Co. ; cartographer John Cary (c. 1754-1835) ;

Techniques cartographical drawing and engraving

Sample(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pinkerton#/media/File:Cape_Colony00.jpg

Archival sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pinkerton

Published sources Walter 1994: plate 126 ;

other Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory, was a celebrated master of the Edinburgh school of cartography which lasted from roughly 1800 to 1830. Further Place of Activity: France (Paris, 1818-1826).

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