{"id":1808015,"date":"2022-07-07T19:16:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-07T23:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1808015"},"modified":"2022-07-07T19:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-07T23:16:17","slug":"allegorical-dissected-and-spiritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/07\/allegorical-dissected-and-spiritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegorical, Dissected and Spiritual"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writing in\u00a0Commonplace<\/em>, Janet Moore Lindman looks at the use of spiritual maps in early America<\/a>, focusing in particular on a curious 1794 combination of\u00a0dissected map (a jigsaw-like map puzzle) and allegorical map (where \u00a0virtues or vices or other abstract ideals are depicted as countries on a map) produced for the education of Quaker children.<\/p>\n

The production of Dillwyn\u2019s allegorical map was unusual for Friends who disdained the visual arts as worldly and pernicious. Quaker abhorrence of art makes this image singular at the same time it demonstrates their adaptability to a new mode of educational instruction. Yet Quaker plainness was retained. Dillwyn\u2019s map made use of little color, had few illustrations, contained no human figures, and relied heavily on the written word to convey meaning.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Writing in\u00a0Commonplace, Janet Moore Lindman looks at the use of spiritual maps in early America, focusing in particular on a curious 1794 combination of\u00a0dissected map (a jigsaw-like map puzzle) and allegorical map (where \u00a0virtues or… More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[19,1311,1583,1548],"class_list":["post-1808015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","tag-1700s","tag-jigsaw-puzzles","tag-quakers","tag-religion","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1805924,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2022\/01\/the-challenger-map-re-emerges-fundraising-campaign-under-way\/","url_meta":{"origin":1808015,"position":0},"title":"The Challenger Map Re-Emerges; Fundraising Campaign Under Way","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 January 2022","format":"link","excerpt":"The iconic Challenger map\u2014a 26\u00d724-metre exaggerated relief map of British Columbia made of nearly a million pieces of jigsaw-cut plywood, is now on display at the B.C. 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