John Pinkerton - Joseph Eckhel - 1794-1
John Pinkerton, London
John Pinkerton - Joseph Eckhel - 1794-1
| FINA IDUnique ID of the page ᵖ | 13644 |
| InstitutionName of Institution. | Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum |
| InventoryInventory number. | MK 6 |
| AuthorAuthor of the document. | John Pinkerton |
| RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. | Joseph Eckhel |
| Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . | January 1794 |
| PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution. | London 51° 30' 26.35" N, 0° 7' 39.54" W |
| Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation. | |
| LiteratureReference to literature. | Pinkerton 1789Pinkerton 1789, Eckhel 1792Eckhel 1792, Kagan 2022, p. 628, note 31Kagan 2022 |
| KeywordNumismatic Keywords ᵖ | England , Connoisseurship |
| LanguageLanguage of the correspondence | Latin |
| External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia ᵖ |
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".
-Letter of January 1794 (from London): However, there is another, as yet unpublished document that provides evidence for Pinkerton’s awareness of the Doctrina: it is an anonymous letter written to Eckhel in Latin from London in January 1794, kept in the archives of the Vienna coin cabinet. In this text the author – who specifically refers to himself as “Tibi ignotus, et ergo ἀνονυμος” – denounces Eckhel’s ignorance of British numismatic literature and strongly recommends the second edition of Pinkerton’s Essay to him, for “a complete knowledge of the present state of numismatics” in Britain and “a great many new ideas not to be found in earlier writers”. Eckhel – who was not aware of the identity of the author of the letter – quoted the text in full in the Addenda, with a somewhat baffled commentary. A comparison of the handwriting of the anonymous letter with manuscript documents of English numismatists of the period, undertaken in the course of the current project on Eckhel’s correspondence in Vienna, has shown that it was in fact written by Pinkerton himself – who promoted his book incognito. The “tibi ignotus” may thus be seen to refer to the fact that Eckhel had not cited Pinkerton in the first volume of the Doctrina (Vienna, Kunsthistorisches Museum, MK 6; Kagan 2022, p. 628, note 31).
