Accurata Designatio Celebris Freti prope Andalusiae Castellum Gibraltar (…) [Matthias SEUTTER after , 1730]

Accurata Designatio Celebris Freti prope Andalusiae Castellum Gibraltar (…)

Copperplate engraving/etching with contemporary hand colouring. on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 61 x 53 cm. Image size: 59,2 x 49,8 cm.

Source unknown, to be determined.

Made by Matthias Seutter after an anonymous artist. Matthias Seutter (1678- 1757) Augsburg was the son of a goldsmith in Augsburg. In 1697, Seutter began his studies in Nuremberg and subsequently worked in the publishing house of Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg. In 1710, he established his own publishing house and print shop. The Seutter publishing house produced a great number of maps, atlases, and globes. However, very few original maps were printed there, as Augsburg at that time had no university and no connection to the fields of mathematics or the natural sciences. Seutter therefore copied the work of other cartographers, making his own engravings based on their models. Over 500 maps were produced in his studio. Seutter’s most well-known works are the 1725 “Geographical Atlas or an Accurate Depiction of the Whole World” (“Atlas Geographicus oder Accurate Vorstellung der ganzen Welt”) with 46 maps, the 1734 “Large Atlas” (“Grosser Atlas”) with 131 maps, and the 1744 pocket atlas “Small Atlas” (“Atlas minor”) with 64 maps. Matthäus Seutter died in 1757. Seutter’s son Albrecht Karl, his son-in-law Conrad Tobias Lotter, and his business partner Johann Michael Probst ran the printing business for five more years.

Condition: Very good, given age. One brown spot lower right, mainly visible on verso. Original middle fold as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: SPAIN-ANDALUSIA-GIBRALTAR-MALAGA-CADIZ-OLD COLOURED

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