{"id":1818607,"date":"2023-09-18T10:19:42","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1818607"},"modified":"2023-09-18T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T14:19:42","slug":"edney-on-sleighs-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2023\/09\/edney-on-sleighs-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland\/","title":{"rendered":"Edney on Sleigh’s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bernard Sleigh, \u201cAn anciente mappe of Fairyland: newly discovered and set forth,\u201d ca. 1917. Map illustration, 147 \u00d7 39 cm. Norman B. Leventhal Map Center, Boston Public Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Matthew Edney has a post<\/a> on Bernard Sleigh\u2019s Anciente Mappe of Fairyland<\/em>, about which we have seen much already<\/a>; 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 panorama by giving it the trappings of normative maps and of realistic imagery more generally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previously: An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland<\/a>; North of Nowhere: The Osher\u2019s Fantasy Map Exhibition<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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… 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":[10,4],"tags":[31,460],"class_list":["post-1818607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-antique-maps","category-maps-and-literature","tag-fantasy-maps","tag-pictorial-maps","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1787272,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2019\/05\/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland\/","url_meta":{"origin":1818607,"position":0},"title":"An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"7 May 2019","format":"image","excerpt":"\"An Anciente Mappe of Fairyland,\" produced by Bernard Sleigh around 1917, is a marvellous conflation of classical myth and fairy tales. 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