3771 - Matthäus Seutter, Map of Northern Germany

Matthäus Seutter, Map of Northern Germany Figurative cartouche in the bottom right-hand corner, inscribed here as ‘Circulus Westphalicus... Matth. Seutteri...’, depicting the area between Rostock in the north, Wittenberg in the east, Trier in the south and Liège in the west; a copperplate map with coloured borders, c. 1730, minimal signs of age; framed under a passe-partout and behind glass; dimensions of the image approx. 50 x 57.5 cm. Artist information: also known as Saiter, Seiter, Seuter or Seyder; German cartographer, copperplate engraver and publisher (1678, Augsburg - 1757, Augsburg), son of the goldsmith Matthäus I; from 1697, apprenticed to Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg; returned to Augsburg and worked at the Jeremias Wolff publishing house; in 1710 he founded his own publishing house with a printing works; in 1731 he was appointed Imperial Geographer; following Seutter’s death in 1757, the publishing house was continued by his son Albrecht Karl (1722-1762), his son-in-law Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) and his long-standing colleague Johann Michael Probst (d. 1805); source: Thieme-Becker and the internet.