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Rare plan and birdseye view of the city of Tranquebar with a panoramic view from the sea.
Tranquenbar was at the time a stronghold of the Danish East India Company in what is now the Madras Province. The Danish East India Company established a trading fort at Tranquebar around 1620. After years of sporadic and poor trading, Tranquenbar became the location of India's first Protestant mission in 1706, and later the first modern printing press in India. The map provides a detailed and annotated plan of the town with panorama below. The map is quite rare, with only one example offered at auction and no offerings in dealer catalogues in AMPR (1983-2009).
Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was a prominent German mapmaker in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially apprenticed to a brewer, he trained as an engraver under Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremburg before setting up shop in his native Augsburg. In 1727 he was granted the title Imperial Geographer. His most famous work is Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae, published in two volumes ca. 1730, although the majority of his maps are based on earlier work by other cartographers like the Homanns, Delisles, and de Fer.
Alternative spellings: Matthias Seutter, Mathaus Seutter, Matthaeus Seutter, Mattheus Seutter
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