Copperplate, original colour, mm 470x543. The map provides a remarkably detailed image, including mountains, rivers, towns, roads, islands and other details From Seutter's Atlas Maior printed in about 1730. Seutter, one of the most celebrated eighteenth century German mapmakers, after having worked with Homann in Nuremberg, started his own business in Augsburg around 1710. His maps always have elaborate cartouches and are very decorative and printed on good paper.