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Description
Decorative map of the Holy Land, with a large elaborate allegorical cartouche.
The Holy Land is divided into the regions of the 12 Tribes and notes towns, roads, mountains, rivers, etc, based upon Biblical teachings.
Condition Description
Narrow margins, but adequate for framing.
Tobias Conrad Lotter Biography
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.