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
small version of the map even before its publication. Finally, when its units were published, detailed reviews were printed by the periodicals. In 1803 the summary of the Austrian Monarchy’s cartography described the then incomplete venture as follows: “The nearest and most well-founded hope that we will have a good map of Hungary lies in captain János Lipszky from Pest.” Lipszky sent drafts of the yet incomplete map to Ferenc Zach, who had it engraved in copper and published it in the January 1804 issue of Monatliche Correspondent This map is exactly one-fifth of the Lipszky-amp with a scale of 1 :2,400,000. This map was later reproduced by the 1806 map supplement of the Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden. Already in 1807, the Domestic Reports carried a positive review of the map, stating, “this map surpass everything that had come from Hungary both in terms of accuracy as well as beauty.” Even NAPOLEON praised the map and the Russian Tsar also expressed his appreciation to palatine József who had sent him a copy of the Lipszky-map. For lack of a better map, it was still in use during the 1848—49 war of independence. Copies of plates were produced until 1812, when the retired colonel Lipszky took them with him to his family estate. After his death, his heirs probably sold the valuable copper plates during the inheritance disputes. Thus the later fate of the maps is uncertain, and information about their journey is only available from copies made by individual publishers. In 1849, MARCUS Berra in Prague published the Mappa generalis from the original plates, adding his own name of the year of publication to the tide. Later, the plates appeared in Vienna in the Artaria publishing firm, which made copies of them in 1868 and 1871. The new owner was also indicated below the legend. The copper plates were re-engraved by adding the new railroads. In the copperplate register of the company compiled in 1863, reference is made to János Lipszky’s 12- page map of Hungary, totalling 12 plates as well as Lipszky’s 1-page map. This latter had been supplemented by the remark this it was not found during the 1875 revision. Litde is known about the fate of the Tabula generalis, as no later copies were made from it, the item in the Artaria-register was also possibly a plate from the full engraving copy. In the 1820’s BERNHARD BILLER engraved the Tabula generalis in copper again, and his work turned out so well that an amateur observer may well think it is an original. ANTON PATERNO produced copies of the plate, then Marcus Berra from Prague made copies of it on several occasions. Eater maps made by using Lips^ky-maps Lipszky-maps were relied on basically until the end of the 19th century in making other maps. This summary may only list maps that included in their title that they are based on the work of Lipszky. It is quite likely that a high number of 452
