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Description
Gorgeous full color example of Lotter's map of the British Isles.
The map includes 5 large coats of arms, portrait and two large decorative allegorical cartouches.
One of the most decorative maps of the British Isles to appear in an 18th Century German Atlas.
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.