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Lotter’s Map & Prospect of Gibraltar

SKU: 8410
£400.00
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Title:
Lotter’s Map & Prospect of Gibraltar

Date of publication:

  • c.1770
  • Printed Measurement:

  • 49.5 x 59 cm
  • Colour:

  • original
  • Castellum Gibraltar in Andalusia situm, cum celebri Freto inter Europam et Africam […]

    This map of Gibraltar shows the Straits, and the prospect at the foot is a bird's-eye plan of the Rock itself and its fortifications; the key is in both French and German. Read more

    Tobias Conrad Lotter inherited half of the business established by his father-in-law, Matthäus Seutter; in 1758 he established his own firm, taking his share of the copper printing plates.

    Condition & Materials

    Copper engraving, 49.5 x 59 cm, original hand-colour, blank verso.  Read less