Matthäus Seutter, Tobias Conrad Lotter

LO 3588

The Balearic Islands

"Carte des Iles de Maiorque Minorque et d'Yvice"

Orig. coloured copper engraving by Matthäus Seutter and Tobias Conrad Lotter, after Jacques Niclas Bellin, Augsburg 1756, 46 x 57,7 cm.

Very good impression, colours and condition.

€ 740,-

Map of the Balearic Islands with Majorca, Minorca, Ibiza and Formentera. At lower right with an inset map of the western Mediterranean Sea, and beside a detail map of the harbour of Mahon, the largest natural port of the Mediterranean Sea at Minorca. With a French text about the islands below the map.

Some details of the map:

Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757). Engraver, cartographer and publisher in Augsburg. Published atlases from 1728 on. He was succeeded by his son Albrecht and his sons-in-law T.C. Lotter and G.B. Probst..

Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777). Engraver and publisher in Augsburg. Son-in-law of M. Seutter. Succeeded together with Albrecht Seutter and G.B. Probst his father-in-law 1756. He was succeeded by his son Mathias Albrecht Lotter (1741 - 1810).

Jacques Niclas Bellin (1703-1772). Royal hydrographer and cartographer in Paris.

June 29, 1756, after the siege of St. Philip's Castle, the Port of Mahon and Minorca was captured from Britain by the French marshal Louis François Armand du Plessis, a duc de Richelieu (1696-1788). A smaller affair, but it represented the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in the European theatre.

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