Pingeling, Thomas Albrecht
Thomas Albrecht Pingeling (August 19, 1727 - July 16, 1803) was a German engraver based in Hamburg. He trained under his father Gottfried Christian Pingeling (1688 - 1769), who had learned the craft from Martin Bernigeroth (1670 - 1733)/ Pingeling the elder moved from his native Saxony to Hamburg with a fellow engraver Christian Fritzsch (1695 - 1769) around 1720 and remained there afterwards. The father-son Pingeling excelled at engraving and their workshop was among the most celebrated in Hamburg in the mid-late 18th century (even working for clients as far away as London and St. Petersburg). They engraved maps, plates, illustrations, and other works for a wide variety of publications at the height of the Enlightenment. After his father's death and operating the firm alone for a time, Thomas Albrecht Pingeling took on Johann Thomas Hagemann (1771 - 1853) as an apprentice and then business partner.
First economic thematic map -Robinson
Neue Carte von Europa welche die merkwürdigsten Producte und vorn ehmsten Handelspläze nebst den Flächen-Inhalt aller Europäischen Länder in deutschen Quadrat-Meilen... [New map of Europe which contains the strangest and most prestigious products of trading places together with the surface content of all European countries in German square miles...]
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An important and influential piece, this is the first edition of A. F. W. Crome's 1782 separate-issue thematic map of Europe illustrating production and economics. It is considered the first thematic and comparative map printed in Europe and, as such, had a profound impact on subsequent cartography, particularly in Germany and France, where Crome's methodology inspired a wave of new thematic cartography. (more details)