Reisz T. Csaba: Magyarország általános térképének elkészítése a 19. század első évtizedében - Lipszky János és segítői térképészeti vállalkozásának ismertetése (Budapest, 2002)

IDEGEN NYELVŰ ÖSSZEFOGLALÓK - The Making of Hungary’s First General Map in the first Decade of the 19th Century. The Cartographic Enterprise of János Lipszky

additional mapmakers relied on Lipszky’s maps. For example, in 1810 JOSEPH RlEDL produced a 4-page map of Serbia and Bosnia, which was intended as a supplement to the Mappa generalis, and attempted to adjust it in both scale and size to the Lipszky-map.

The Lipszky-map was frequently relied on in later periods as a starting point for the production of new cartographic products. County maps, maps of battles and regions, church districts were produces on this basis. Lipszky’s work was also a resource for map supplements of book; in addition to domestic users, there are a number of references in the Anglophone literature.

The most significant product among works relying on Lipszky’s achievements is that of EDMUND ZUCCHERI, as his map was printed at least 16 times between 1811 and 1880. The French and German titled map was originally produced on four units (the engraver was JOSEPH STÖBER), and then around 1820 two smaller units were added on the left side. The map was printed on 6 units from then. The map’s plates appeared in several publishers’ offices: Kunst- und Industrie- Comptoir published the map in 1811, 1812 and 1813, then in 1816 the heir, Joseph Riedl published copies from the plates, then Artaria & Co. The two supplemental units were probably made after the change in publisher: maps were printed after 1820 (no date on the map units), in 1844,1847, 1848, 1851, 1853, 1859, 1861, 1864, 1868, 1871 and 1880. Addresses and administrative tables were re-engraved according to the current political circumstances.

Maps of Hungary printed in Austrian general atlases in the second half of the 19th century were produced based on Lipszky’s map, the publishers of the MOLLO family published these pages eight times in several engravings between 1816 and 1834.

MÖLLER and PIRSAK made a topographical map of the entire country, which was first printed in 1830 then in 1834. The engraver was the same Bernhard Biller who had earlier prepared a copy of the Tabula generalis. In the middle of the century, a Hungarian-language map relied on Lipszky: MIHÁLY MAGYAR published a map of Hungary three times between 1852 and 1854, having also compiled an index for the third publication.

Certain participants of the Lipszky-undertaking later also ventured to publish their private work, and although they did not name the officer’s map among their sources, its impact is indisputable and dependence on it is confirmed by indirect data:

Ferenc Karacs in 1813 “published colonel Lipszky’s large, 12-page Hungary map by downsizing it to four pages, with Hungarian names and addresses, recommending it for comprehensibility, cheapness and entirety. Nevertheless, it is useless for foreigners because of the Hungarian names,” writes one contemporary reviewer.

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