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Georg Matthaeus Seutter (1678-1757) after Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726) Map of southern Greece, 1755
overcoloured engraving, 48 × 58 cm
inscribed and signed:
GRAECIAE PARS MERIDIONALIS (top centre)
GRAECIAE / ANTIQUAE / DESIGNATIO NOVA / in qua tam locorum situs ad distantias ininerarias, quam ad Astronomicas Observationes descriptus. / littorum itidem flexurae et alia id genus, / ad accuratus recentiorum rationes accomodatus / studio et impensis / MATTH. SEUTTERI, S.C.M.G. / August. (bottom left, in the cartouche)
Library of the Hellenic Parliament
A NEW MAP of the southern part of ancient Greece. It was published in Vienna in 1755, engraved by G.M. Seutter, as the lower part of a two-page map of the entire Greece – the top part is titled “Graeciae Pars Septentrionalis” – in order to illustrate his atlas.
The German cartographer Georg Matthaus Seutter (1678-1757), a pupil of Johann Baptist Homann, worked in Nuremberg and Augsburg, where he start- ed his own chartography business in 1707/10. His son-in-law, Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777), his successor, reprinted many of Seutter’s maps.
For this map, Seutter relies on a two-page map of an-
cient Greece, drawn in 1707 by the eminent cartog- rapher Guillaume Delisle (1675-1726), which became established as the most authoritative map of Greek antiquity and was published in several editions.
Delisle’s cartographic model of Greece also served as Rigas’s main cartographic model for drawing and illustrating his own Map of Greece in 1797 [cat. no Ι.2.21]
It features a richly ornamental cartouche, with re- lated images and the central allegorical figure of Greece, a variation of which will be featured by Rhi- gas in his own title [cat. no I.2.23].