PIETER SCHENK, Balkan, ca 1720
Highly detailed map of the former Yugoslavia, Albania and Greece with countries and areas including Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo, Northern Macedonia and Dalmatia. Also parts of Turkey and Italy and the Mediterranean.
Pieter Schenk (II) (Amsterdam, 15 February 1693 - 14 January 1775) was a Dutch-German engraver and mapmaker, who worked mainly in Amsterdam and in the German city of Leipzig. Pieter Schenk the younger was the son of Pieter Schenk the elder, who was originally a German engraver and cartographer. In 1731, he lived in the Warmoesstraat in Amsterdam. Pieter Schenk II died in 1775 and was buried in a building on Kalverstraat. Schenk is primarily known as the maker of Saxon maps and city plans.
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