BRITTISCHE UBERMACHT ZUR SEE WIEDER FRANCKREICH AO 1759
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Scarce map of the Atlantic coasts of France (and western half of the country), showing the British blockade of her ports at the height of the Seven Years' War.
Fascinating and finely engraved map engraved by M.A.Lotter and sold by his father, T.Lotter.
It describes naval skirmishes between the British and French during the Seven Years War (1756-1763), culminating in the British victory at Quiberon by Admiral Hawke.
Annotations and numbered vignettes illustrate the movements of the fleets, the British out of Portsmouth and Torbay, along the coast of France and in the Bay of Biscay, and are recorded in detailed panels of text at each side. The descriptions, in German and French, relate to the political background for the conflict.
With large, decorative title cartouche with text in German and French
Excellent fresh original colour
Mint condition
code : M4787
Cartographer : LOTTER Family
Date : 1770c
Size : 48*48 cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
The Lotter family were and engraves and publishers based in Augsburg with a prolific output of maps in the eighteenth century.
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) worked with Georg Matthaus Seutter (his father-in-law - he married Georg's daughter in 1740) and Tobias Lobeck. In 1756 he succeeded his father-in-law jointly with Albrecht Seutter's son and Georg Balthasar Probst, also re lated by marriage. In 1758 Lotter inherited half the copperplates of the Seutter firm and was able to set up his own, independent publishing house that same year. Some of his best known atlas works are the "Atlas Minor" (c.1744), the "Atlas Der Ganzen Welt" (1748) and the "Atlas Novus" (c.1770), as well as numerous, important, single map - the "REcens Edita Totius Novi Belgica" of c.1760 being just one of note.
The Seutter/Lotter collaboration was recognised as one of the great German publishing endeavours of the eighteenth century.
Tobias Conrad was succeeded by his sons Matthaus Albrecht Lotter and Georg Friedrich Lotter, and other family members were also involved.
