3780 - Matthäus Seutter, Map of the Island of Martinique

Matthäus Seutter, Map of the Island of Martinique in the bottom left-hand corner, a scene featuring numerous figures, inscribed here as ‘... De l’Ile Martinique... de Matthieu Seutter...’, engraved by Albrecht Carl Seutter, depicting the French colony of Martinique with its administrative regions highlighted in colour, partially coloured copperplate engraving, c. 1745, with the usual crease in the centre, slight signs of wear, framed under a passe-partout and behind glass, Image dimensions approx. 48 x 55.5 cm. Artist information: also known as Saiter, Seiter, Seuter, 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.