Victory map highlighting the land ceded by the Ottoman Empire to the Habsburg monarchy following the Austro-Turkish War (1716-1718) and the Treaty of Passarowitz. The outlined area stretches from the Drava River's western bank near Funfkirchen (Pecs) south to Stolatz (Stalać) and from Novi Grad east to the Olt River. The area encompasses the cities and villages of Kastanovitz (Kostajnica), Belgrade, Sabtaz (Šabac), Temeswar (Timișoara), Krajova (Craiova), and Orsava (Orșova). Csernetz (Cerneti), the former center of Mehedinți and where Mihnea II Radu had installed a military administration, is noted with "Residenti a Princ. Wallachiae". A dashed line shows the limits set by the earlier Treaty of Karlowitz. The cartouche features an eagle with an olive branch in its beak atop a bust of Charles VI to which turbaned Turks, kneeling on a hilltop, offer keys.
States
This is the first state, signed with his name and "Chalcogr." (chalcographus or copper engraver) at the bottom of the cartouche.
The second state is signed with "S.C.M.G", his title of imperial geographer, a privilege he received in 1731/32.
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