Seutter’s Map of Roman Gaul Mapmaker(s)_Illustrated London News was a self-taught copper engraver

was a self-taught copper engraver who founded the leading German cartographic publishing house of the eighteenth-century

light vertical crease to right of centrefold

marginal crease to top right hand corner

printed area measurement 27 x 35 cm

It was published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

Seutter’s Map of Roman Gaul Mapmaker(s)_Illustrated London News was a self-taught copper engraverGallia Augustiniana in suas provincias divisa A map of Roman Gaul, with Lotters imprint. In 1756 Lotter succeeded his father in law, Georg Matthaus Seutter; he inherited half the firms printing plates in 1758, whereupon he established an independent publishing house. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 49. 5 x 57. 5 cm, original hand colour, slight marginal staining to margins, cancelled Soviet library stamp on verso, otherwise blank