3775 - Matthäus Seutter, copperplate map of Bavaria

Matthäus Seutter, copperplate map of Bavaria top left: figurative cartouche labelled ‘Bavariae... Matthaei Seutteri...”, a figurative mile marker in the bottom right-hand corner, an inset map in the top right-hand corner; the main map depicts the area between Regensburg in the north, Reichenhall in the east, Ehrenberg in the south and Donauwert in the west; a colour-block copperplate engraving, c. 1730; with the usual fold in the centre; slight signs of wear; dimensions of the illustration approx. 57 x 49 cm; sheet dimensions approx. 66 x 56 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; 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.