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Description

Decorative large format map of the island of Jamaica, divided by parishes, published in Augsburg by Seutter.

The cartouche depicts natives harvesting, processing and curing sugar cane along with sea turtles and a mermaid observing it all.

The map shows the importance of the English Colony of Jamaica in the mid-18th century and includes topographical features, soundings in the southern harbors and a host of oher details. At the top right, there is a lengthy annotation in German.

One of the most decorative maps of Jamaica to appear in a commercial atlas in the 18th century.

Matthaus Seutter Biography

Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was a prominent German mapmaker in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially apprenticed to a brewer, he trained as an engraver under Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremburg before setting up shop in his native Augsburg. In 1727 he was granted the title Imperial Geographer. His most famous work is Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae, published in two volumes ca. 1730, although the majority of his maps are based on earlier work by other cartographers like the Homanns, Delisles, and de Fer. 

Alternative spellings: Matthias Seutter, Mathaus Seutter, Matthaeus Seutter, Mattheus Seutter