Lot 08551

SEUTTER M., “Graecia nova et mare Aegeum f. Archipelagus in qua mappa Macedonia, Albania, Epirus, Thessalia et Morea cum circumjacentibus insulis Corcyra, Cephalonia, Zachyntos, Stalimene, Metelino, Chios…”, c.1730, dim. 58×50.5 cm. Splendid copper engraved map of “New” Greece with fine original hand-colouring. Reaching to the East Constantinople, to the South Rhodes & Peloponnese, to the West the Ionian Islands and to the North Dubrovnic, Skopje & Sozopol. Impressive title cartouche bearing an armed Ottoman on one side and an ancient Greek armed woman figure, under a putti holding a banner with the inscription “Inter arma silent Musae” [When arms speak, Muses are silent], referring to the oppression of the Greek world under the Ottoman rule. Framed. Zacharakis 3348.