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Description

Finely engraved map of the area around Bamberg in Northern Bavaria, published by Seutter.

The map extends to Schweinfurt, Coburg, the Fichtelgebirge and Erlangen, with an inset map of the then Bamberg owned area in Carinthia/Austria and a view of the Palace at Pommersfelden.

Large pictorial cartouche with eight heraldic shields, cherubs and royalty. Table of chronological explanations below.

Matthaus Seutter Biography

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