KIPFERLING, JOSEPH KARL: MAP OF THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF DALMATIA

Inventory number 348

Original title: Charte des südostlichen Theiles von Dalmatien mit dem österreichischen Antheile von Albanien

Publishing year: 1803

Place of publishing and publisher: Wien, Verlag des Kunst und Industrie Comptoirs

Format: 48 x 51 cm

Technique: Partially coloured copper engraving

This Kipferling’s map was published in his atlas titled «Atlas des Österreichischen Kaiserthums» in the 1805 edition published by «Kunst und Industrie Comptoirs». It shows the then southern part of Dalmatia with a part of Albania (the Gulf of Kotor, Bocca di Cattaro) shown in an inset map placed in the lower left corner of the map. The map features the above regions after the fall of the Venetian Republic during the so-called period of the first Austrian administration (1797-1805), before the French stormed the region in 1808 and ended the independence of a centuries-old Republic of Dubrovnik which can be seen on this map as it was during its last days. The signature of the engraver Franz Thade Müller is placed in the lower left corner of the map.

KIPFERLING, JOSEPH KARL

KIPFERLING, JOSEPH KARL - an Austrian cartographer from the first half of the 19th century. He worked in Vienna, with Kindermann, Walch and Müller. His most notable works are Oest. Monarchie from 1803, Empire Autriche from 1805, Reise Atlas, published in Vienna in 1804, the book Nieder-Ungern : II. Blatt enthaltend die Pressburger, Neitraer, Trentschiner, Thurozer, Arver, Liptauer, Sohler, Neograder, Honter Und Barscher Gespannschaft = II. Partie De La Basse Hongrie from 1803 and Atlas des Ö̈sterreichischen Kaiserthums from 1804.