{"id":1787272,"date":"2019-05-07T19:48:35","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1787272"},"modified":"2019-05-07T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T23:48:35","slug":"an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland\/","title":{"rendered":"An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernard Sleigh, “An anciente mappe of Fairyland: newly discovered and set forth,” ca. 1917. Map illustration, 147 \u00d7 39 cm. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland<\/a>,” produced by Bernard Sleigh<\/a> around 1917, is a marvellous conflation of classical myth and fairy tales. Nearly five feet wide, it was apparently designed to hang in nurseries. The echoes of its design elements can still be seen in later fantasy maps and children’s book illustrations, such as E. H. Shepard’s maps of the Hundred Acre Wood and Pauline Baynes’s maps of Narnia, though none of them are this vibrant.<\/p>\n

It was making the rounds a month or two back, probably because a copy was being offered for sale: Atlas Obscura<\/a><\/em>, Kottke<\/a>. High-resolution digital versions are available via the Boston Public Library’s Leventhal Center<\/a>, the British Library<\/a> and the Library of Congress<\/a>; the Leventhal’s reproduction is is much more brightly coloured and in the best shape. The map came with an accompanying booklet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously: The British Library on Fantasy Maps<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland,” produced by Bernard Sleigh around 1917, is a marvellous conflation of classical myth and fairy tales. Nearly five feet wide, it was apparently designed to hang in nurseries. The echoes… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[31,460],"class_list":["post-1787272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-art","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-pictorial-maps","post_format-post-format-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1818607,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/09\/edney-on-sleighs-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787272,"position":0},"title":"Edney on Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"18 September 2023","format":"link","excerpt":"Matthew Edney has a post on Bernard Sleigh\u2019s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland, about which we have seen much already; Edney\u2019s look is deeper and more analytical. \u201cOf special interest to me is how, despite his overtly anti-modernist subject matter and style, Sleigh nonetheless gave structure and system to his fictive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Antique Maps"","block_context":{"text":"Antique Maps","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/category\/antique-maps\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Bernard Sleigh, An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland (1917)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sleigh-fairyland-1024x315.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sleigh-fairyland-1024x315.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sleigh-fairyland-1024x315.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.maproomblog.com\/xq\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/sleigh-fairyland-1024x315.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3373,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2016\/11\/the-british-library-on-fantasy-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1787272,"position":1},"title":"The British Library on Fantasy Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"14 November 2016","format":"link","excerpt":"British Library curator Tom Harper writes about fantasy maps, which make up a major component of the Library's current exhibition, Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line\u00a0(previously). 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