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CIRCA 1728'S MAP OF NORTHERN INDIA

Lot No. 15: MATTHAUS SEUTTER

IMPERII MAGNI MOGOLIS SIVE INDICI PADSCHACH

  • Medium: Hand Coloured Map
  • Year: Circa 1728
  • Size: 25 x 21.1 inches

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Estimate

75,000 - 1,50,000


Estimate US$

890-1800

Ends at Nov 28, 2024 07:14 PM IST

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MATTHAUS SEUTTER

IMPERII MAGNI MOGOLIS SIVE INDICI PADSCHACH

Folded Map

Year: Circa 1728

Size: 63.5 x 53.6 cm (25 x 21.1 inches)

Cartographer/ Published by: Matthau Seutter 1678-1756, Engraver by: Albrechat Carl Seutter.

This hand-coloured map of India represents 18th-century German cartography at its finest. This is an absolutely spectacular map of northern India by Matthaus Seutter. It documents the vast expansion of the Mughal Empire in the late 17th century from Persia to Gulf Thailand.

Cartographically, this map is heavily based upon Hondious and Mercator’s 17th century map of the same region entitled ‘Indian Orientals’.
Cartographer has used several decorative, attractive allegorical cartouche images. The title cartouche in the lower left-hand quadrant shows Poseidon, Hermes, an angel, and the goddess Fame admiring the wealth of Asia as represented by the jewel, ivory, and precious metal. In the upper-left quadrant, a distance scale plays second fiddle to a scene of cherubs rummaging through chests full of treasure while exotic peacocks look on. A large trade caravan rests in the Indian Ocean, lower right quadrant, suggesting the trade riches to be had by ship captains willing to sail half way around the world.

Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was one of the most important and prolific German map publishers of the 18th century. As a young man, he was an eminent engraver who had been trained under the great Johann Baptist Homann in Nürnberg. In the mid-1720s, he moved to his hometown of Augsburg and set up his own printing and publishing house, specialising in maps. His skill as a cartographer was soon noticed in higher circles, and in 1732 Seutter was appointed Imperial Geographer to Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. The appointment came after his most famous cartographic publication, the two-volume Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae, from 1730.
Like many of his contemporaries, Seutter drew heavily on other mapmakers when compiling his charts. Among his primary sources were the maps of his mentor Homann and the great French cartographers Guillaume Delisle and Nicolas de Fer. When Seutter died in 1757, his son-in-law, Tobias Conrad Lotter, took over the firm.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
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