Description
Finely executed antique map of the British Isles, published by Lotter in Augsburg.
The map includes an ornate title cartouche, with the arms of England, Wales and Scotland in the left corner.
The map was engraved by Mathias Albrecht Lotter for his father Tobias Lotter's 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.