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Anciente map of Fairyland. Places from nursery rhymes, fairy tales etc.

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5 days ago

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| collections.leventhalmap.org

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3 hours ago

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This is a nice alternative link because it zooms into a few areas

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-...

1 hour ago

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> Tom Thumb is somewhere here but he is too small to draw.

3 hours ago

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That's an amazing picture - sort of reminds me of the Carta marina by Olaus Magnus. [1]

Not going to lie, I did kind of chuckle a bit at the part labeled "The Water Babies".

The artist is Bernard Sleigh [2].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Sleigh

2 hours ago

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Very cool, does anyone know if I can buy a high quality print somewhere?

1 hour ago

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https://publicdomainreview.org/product/an-anciente-mappe-of-...

4 hours ago

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YNews hug of death, perhaps

3 hours ago

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This map was created in 1917, so sadly it missed out on Lord Dunsany's explorations of Elfland (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Elfland%27s_Daught...).

But... seven years separate Dunsany's novel from this map, and as everyone knows, seven is an important number in Fairyland! I declare a Fae conspiracy.

3 hours ago

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well next year will be 70 years from Dunsany's death, so pretty much everything of his should be in the public domain then. maybe the map can be updated!