Artesia cum finitimis locis velut Sedes ac Theatrum Belli..

Title

Artesia cum finitimis locis velut Sedes ac Theatrum Belli..

Description

Map shows the historical province of Artois, it is located in the north of France in the interior of the today's department of Pas-de-Calais. Top right a title cartouche with the arms of the county of Artois. Left side compass rose, mileage indicator and an index.

ca. 1760

Artist

Lotter (1717-1777)

Tobias Conrad Lotter ( 1717- 1777) was a carthographer and publisher in Augsburg. He married the elder daughter of Matthäus Seutters and worked in the company of his father in la was map maker. He produced under the „ eye“ of M. Seutter his first „ Asia minor“ atlas between 1740 and 1744. The Asia minor altas of Lotter, Praecipua orbis terrarum imperia, regna et provincias, Germania potissimum tabelli 80 exactae delineatis sistens usui militiae ducum ac peregrinantium maxime accommodatus opera contains 63 maps, mosly Lotters work and other maps from Seutter where he put his name in the lower margin.

Historical Description

Pas-de-Calais is one of the 83 departments created in 1790 during the French Revolution in application of the law of December 1789. It was created by merging Artois and parts of Picardy, the Boulonnais and part of the Ponthieu.