Antique Map of the Low Countries by Seutter (c.1745)

Description: Antique map titled ‘XVII Provinciae Belgii sive Germaniae Inferioris (..)’. Detailed hand colored map of the Low Countries. Includes colored decorative cartouche, compass rose and coat of arms. Shows political and administrative divisions, cities and towns, place names, rivers and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. 

Artists and Engravers: One of the great 18th-century German cartographic families was the Seutters. George Mattaus Seutter the elder was an apprentice to Johann B. Homann, (another great German cartographer who's style was a big influence), in the late 17th century. He left Homann and settled in Augsburg where he set up his own shop. Later joined by his son, Albrecht, who continued the firm in partnership with Tobias C. Lotter upon his fathers death.