Chart of the Winds
notes: label: Description
content: This hand-colored engraving depicts the compass rose with the names of the winds in several languages (Latin, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, French and German). The figures in the corners represent the seasons. The banner at top reads: “TABULA ANEMOGRAPHICA seu PYXIS NAUTICA, vulgo COMPASS. CHARTE / Ventorum Noia septem linguis græca seil latina, italic, hispanica, gallica, hollandiea et germanica repræsentantio / succinate elaborate / À TOB. CONRAD LOTTERO, CHALCOGRAPHO ET GEOGRAPHO AUGUSTANO” as well as “Cu. Gr. et Pr.S.R.I. / part Rheni, Svev et Jur.” and “Vicariatg. in / Franconici.”
label: Description
content: Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777) was a cartographer and engraver in Augsburg who worked with Mattheus Seutter, married Seutter's daughter Euphrosina, and succeeded to part of the business after Seutter’s death in 1757.
label: Description
content: This print might have been sold separately or bound in an atlas. It is, for instance, plate #2 in the <i>Atlas Geographique</i> (Nuremberg, 1778).
label: Description
content: Ref: Michael Ritter, “Seutter, Probst and Lotter: An Eighteenth-Century Map Publishing House in Germany,” <i>Imago Mundi</i> 53 (2001): 130-135.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Germany: Bavaria, Augsburg
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.329192
label: catalog number
content: 329192
label: accession number
content: 280072
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 26 3/4 in x 21 3/4 in; 67.945 cm x 55.245 cm