Jode, Gerard

Engraver, printer, print seller, publisher and cartographer, and father of Cornelius de Jode. Active in Antwerp c. 1550. Re-engraved Giacomo Gastaldi’s “Universalis exactissima atquae non recens modo…” in 1555. Publications include “Speculum Orbis Terrarum” 1578, with several maps engraved by Johan and Lucas van Doetichum,  with some maps dating from 1569. His son Cornelis (1568–1600) was an engraver, publisher and  scholar of Antwerp. Following his death, his plates passed into the possession of Jan Baptist Vrients.