LOTTER, TOBIAS CONRAD.“Terra Sancta sive Palaestina exhibens non solum Regna Vetera Iuda et Israel in Suas XII ...

LOTTER, TOBIAS CONRAD.
“Terra Sancta sive Palaestina exhibens non solum Regna Vetera Iuda et Israel in Suas XII Tribus Distincta …”


Hand-colored copperplate map.
20.5 x 25.7 inches (52 x 65.4 cm).
Augsburg, first edition 1759 (or later):
Decorative map of the Holy Land after Matthäus Seutter, with a large elaborate rococo-style allegorical cartouche. The Holy Land is divided into the Old Kingdoms of Judea and Israel and the regions of the Twelve Tribes. On the left: Maria Theresa dressed as a High Priest is holding the Tablets of Law; on right: Joshua dressed as a “Landsknecht” or German mercenary soldier, holding a flag with the names of the Twelve Tribes. Lotter (1717-77), perhaps the most prolific and influential cartographic publisher in Germany, previously worked for the prominent Augsburg map publisher Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757), married his daughter and became the primary heir of Seutter’s prosperous business.
Decorative map of the Holy Land after Matthäus Seutter, with a large elaborate rococo-style allegorical cartouche. The Holy Land is divided into the Old Kingdoms of Judea and Israel and the regions of the Twelve Tribes. On the left: Maria Theresa dressed as a High Priest is holding the Tablets of Law; on right: Joshua dressed as a “Landsknecht” or German mercenary soldier, holding a flag with the names of the Twelve Tribes. Lotter (1717-77), perhaps the most prolific and influential cartographic publisher in Germany, previously worked for the prominent Augsburg map publisher Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757), married his daughter and became the primary heir of Seutter’s prosperous business.