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Matthias Quad

Matthias Quad

Engraver and cartographer (1557–1613)

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.[1]

Aphrica, 1600, Johann Bussemacher after Matthias Quad

Life

Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood and stone,[2] Quad collaborated with the Cologne publisher Johann Bussemacher to publish a quarto atlas of Europe in 1592.[3] This was expanded into a Geographisches Handtbuch (1599), with more text than maps, and then into a proper atlas, Fasciculus Geographicus (1608).[2]

Works

References

  1. [1]
    Helmut Walser Smith, The Continuities of German History (Cambridge University Press, 2008), p. 44.
  2. [2]
    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.
  3. [3]
    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.
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