Map · Chinese
Qing neifu yuditu suo moben: reduced manuscript copy of the Qianlong Imperial Household atlas (Neifu yutu), 1821, National Central Library Taipei via WDL
清內府輿地圖縮摹本
Liu Yan; Weng Tonghe (contributor)
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
copy: reduction of the 1760s thirteen-row copperplate Qianlong atlas (Neifu yutu) by a Qing geographer
Research notes
- A reduced copy, so scale and some names are simplified; provenance via Weng Tonghe. Not the copperplate itself.
Why it matters
An accessible witness to the Qianlong Neifu yutu, the Qing survey atlas that first mapped Xinjiang and the Kazakh borderlands after 1759; the original copperplate atlas is not open online.
Places named
Qing empire incl. Xinjiang, Mongolia, Tibet, Manchuria and the Russian frontier as in the Qianlong atlas
Who copied whom
Earlier in the chain
- Huangyu quanlan fensheng tu M107, 1717–1721this one was drawn from it (stated)Qianlong atlas, itself from the Kangxi atlas, reduced in 1821
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