SEUTTER, GEORG MATTHÄUS: MAP OF VOIVODINA, CARNIOLA, VINDISCH MARK AND ISTRIA
Inventory number 119
Author: SEUTTER, GEORG MATTHÄUS
Original title: Exactissima Ducatus Carniolae Vindorum Marchia et Histriae
Publishing year: 1730
Place of publishing and publisher: Augsburg
Format: 49 x 56 cm
Technique: Coloured copper engraving
Seutter's map of Voivodina, Carniola, Vindisch Mark and Istria is a reissue of Valvasor's map published in 1681 by Johann Baptist Homann around 1718 (ref. catalogue No. 37). The new map differs in design and location of cartouches and unlike the previous one Seutter's maps doesn't include city view of Ljubljana. In the upper right corner is the title surrounded by pastoral scene decorations. A mileage key in German miles (Milliaria Germanica) and in Italian miles (Milliaria Italica).
SEUTTER, GEORG MATTHÄUS
GEORG MATTHÄUS SEUTTER (1678-1757), A German cartographer, geographer and map editor. He was Johann Baptist Homann's disciple, and later the greatest Homann successor's competitor. As graphic artist he started its work in Augsburg. Seutter engraved most of his maps by himself, while for their decoration other artists were entrusted, who in many cases left their signature next to the illustrations made. Seutter's workshop produced about 500 maps. Although these maps are very similar to those issued by Homann they have never reached its outstanding artistic level. The most famous Seutter's works are "Atlas Geographicus", 1725, "Atlas novus indicibus instructus" published in Vienna in 1730, "Grosser Atlas", 1734 and "Atlas monor praecipua orbis terrarum imperia" of 1744.
