Matthias Quad
Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders. • Illustration — Aphrica, 1600, Johann Bussemacher after Matthias Quad
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Matthias Quad
Geneva Urbs, vers 1603, Matthias Quad (1557 - après 1608) ou atelier de Franz Hogenberg (Cologne, XVIe - début XVlle siècle), Eau-forte rehaussée à l'aquarelle, 194 x 291 mm, au trait carré, 256 x 327 · Photocopiée depuis la page 183 de l'œuvre « Journal du temps de l'Escalade » par Slatkine, 2002 Genève. ISBN 2-8321-0059-7. Scanned from page 183 of the book "Journal du temps de l'Escalade". Slatkin · Public domain
- Born
- 1557
- Died
- 1613
- Occupation
- geographer · cartographer · printmaker · copper engraver · xylographer · scholar
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Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. He was the first European mapmaker to use dotted lines to indicate international borders. • Illustration — Aphrica, 1600, Johann Bussemacher after Matthias Quad
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Life
Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone, Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592. This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).
Works
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• Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae..., 1592 (1596 edition on Internet Archive) • Globi terrestris compendium, 1598 (On Google Books) • Enchiridion Cosmographicum, 1599 (On Google Books) • Geographisches Handtbuch, 1599/1600 (On Google Books) • Deliciae Germaniae sive totius Germaniae itinerarium, 1600 (On Google Books) • Itinerarium Universae Germaniae, 1602 (On Google Books) • Deliciae Hispaniae et index viatorius indicans itinera, 1604 (On Google Books) • Fasciculus Geographicus, 1608 (On Google Books)
Kalender-Einblattdruck Ein newer Calender in Cantzelleien schreibstuben, auch sunst in kaufmans und burgerlichen hewsern nutzlich zugebrauchen... Kupferstich von zwei Platten. 26,2 x 22,8 cm. Zu Coln (Kölln) truckts Johan bussemecher. Wohl 1593. Mit Evangelistenmedaillons (Kopien nach Hans Sebald Beham).
engraver: possibly Matthias Quad printer: Johan Bussemacher (fl. at Cologne, c. 1580-1616) · Galerie Bassenge
Identificatie Titel(s): Allegorie op de staat van Vlaanderen, 1604 ~ Imago Flandriae (titel op object)
Matthias Quad / Jan Janssonius
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1557
Matthias Quad born at Netherlands.
1613
Matthias Quad died in 1613.
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