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This map of the Bavarian Circle, originally created by Jeremias Wolff, was later published by Tobias Conrad Lotter.
The map details the principal territories within the circle, including the Duchies of Bavaria and Palatinate-Neuburg; the Counties of Werdenfels, Hohenwaldeck, and Ortenburg; the Berchtesgaden Provostry; Leuchtenberg; the Prince-Bishoprics of Passau and Freising; and the Prince-Archbishopric of Salzburg. The decorative cartouche prominently features the Bavarian coat of arms, flanked by allegorical depictions of Ceres, the goddess of agriculture, and Diana, the goddess of the hunt.
Following Jeremias Wolff's death, his grandson, Johann Friedrich Probst, inherited the original copperplates, adding his name and a sheet number to some editions. In 1760, Probst sold the majority of these plates to Tobias Conrad Lotter, who altered the engravings to reflect his own name.
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) is one of the best-known German mapmakers of the eighteenth century. He engraved many of the maps published by Matthaus Seutter, to whose daughter Lotter was married. He took over Seutter’s business in 1756. Lotter’s son, M. A. Lotter, succeeded his father in the business.
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