Art

Map of an area roughly corresponding to modern day eastern Belgium. Oval portrait at top right, text in Latin at lower left, title at lower right. Matthaus Quad was a German cartographer based in Cologne, which, at the time was the centre for German cartography. This map is from his Fascilus Geographicus. It was printed by Johannes Bussemacher. Copper engraving. Uncoloured. Size: 26 x 20 cm. (10 x 8 inches).