Original antique map by Matthaus Seutter, from his 'Atlas Minor', c.1744. The atlas itself is undated but the latest date in the work is 1744.
The map is derived from that in his folio 'Atlas Minor' first published in 1720.
Matheus Seutter (1678 – 1757) was a prominent German mapmaker active in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially apprenticed to a brewer, he trained as an engraver under Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremberg before setting up his own business in his native Augsburg. He became Homann's main competitor and in 1727, he was granted the title Imperial Geographer to King Karl VI.
His most famous work is his “Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae”, published in two volumes c.1730, although the majority of his maps are based on earlier works by other cartographers.
