Typus Orbis Terrarium - an Elizabethan world map with Jesus Christ inset showing mythical lands by Matthias Quad, 1596 art print poster canvas gift Size:Large poster (or Canvas) 17.4x23.7 inches / 44.3x60.3 cm including the Crystal Palace

including the Crystal Palace

Peace your Sea

he produced a Topographia Germaniae in 38 parts

within the last six or seven hundred years

His first work on molluscs was published in 1838

Typus Orbis Terrarium - an Elizabethan world map with Jesus Christ inset showing mythical lands by Matthias Quad, 1596 art print poster canvas gift Size:Large poster (or Canvas) 17.4x23.7 inches / 44.3x60.3 cm including the Crystal Palace"TYPUS ORBIS TERRARUM, AD IMITATIONEM UNIVERSALIS GERHARDI MERCATORIS" a scarce Elizabethan early world map with a figure of Jesus Christ on the left and showing an array of mythical lands and places, engraved by Matthias Quad and printed and hand coloured by Johann Bussemacher in 1596 in Cologne. Matthias Quad (15571613) was an engraver and cartographer from Cologne. Matthias Quad was born and learnt engraving in the Netherlands. An engraver in wood