Matthias Quad

Matthias Quad (1557–1613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne.

Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone,^[1] Quad collaborated with the Cologine publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592.^[2] This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).^[1]

Works

• Europea totius orbis terrarum praestantissimae..., 1592
• Geographisches Handtbuch, 1599/1600
• Fasciculus Geographicus, 1608

References

1. Leo Bagrow; R a Skelton (2009). History of Cartography (enlarged 2nd ed.). Transaction Publishers. p. 266. ISBN 978-1-4128-1154-5. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
2. Rodney W. Shirley (2009). Courtiers and cannibals, angels and amazons: the art of the decorative cartographic titlepage. Hes & De Graaf. p. 82. ISBN 978-90-6194-060-9. Retrieved 14 January 2013.