4051 - Matthäus Seutter, Map of Mining in the Ore Mountains

Matthäus Seutter, Map of Mining in the Ore Mountains the right-hand section of a two-part map; the lower section features a detailed mining scene with a Göbel, a cross-section of a mine and a water-lifting mechanism; top left: a composition of various geographical and cartographic instruments; engraved by Tobias Conrad Lotter, published by Matthäus Seutter in Augsburg; depicting the area between Dresden in the north, Bohemian Kamnitz (Česká Kamenice) in the east, Einsiedel in the south and Freiberg in the west; area-coloured copperplate engraving, c. 1740; originally squared and reassembled; restored; framed with a passe-partout and behind glass; dimensions of the image approx. 58 x 49 cm. Artist information: also known as Saiter, Seiter, Seuter or Seyder; German cartographer, copperplate engraver and publisher (1678-1757, 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.