Title
Europa religionis christianae morum et pacis ac belli artium cultu omnium terrarum orbis partium praestantiss - Tobias Conrad Lotter - 1740
Description
Title translation: “Europe, the most excellent of all parts of the world by its cultivation of the Christian religion, good morals, and the arts of peace and war.” Map of Europe originally created by Matthäus Seutter (c. 1730) and later republished by his son-in-law, Tobias Conrad Lotter in his Atlas Minor at Augsbrurg, which promotes Europe as a superior civilizing force defined by enlightenment ideals, faith, and military or cultural progress.
Date
Circa 1740–1744 ( undated )
Dimension
Approximately 19.5 × 26 cm
Condition
Torn, damaged, incomplete, stained, circled, hand-colored copperplate engraving, later 1840-1860, laminated on paper.
Author:
Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717 - 1777) was a German engraver and map publisher.