Map of the Kingdom of Wisdom
"Landkarte von dem Reiche des Wissens",
Subject: Cartographic Miscellany, Fictional Map
Period: 1817 (circa)
Publication: Jurende's Mährischer Wanderer
Color: Hand Color
Size:
8.6 x 7.3 inches
21.8 x 18.5 cm
This charming map depicts the Kingdom of Wisdom, centered on Philosophy Island in the middle of the Sea of Ignorance. There are several surrounding islands, including those for Doctors, Laywers, Poets, Speakers, and History. Together these islands form an illustrious circle of the sciences, from which theology remains excluded. At the fringes of the map are places to avoid, such as the Region of Religious Opinion and the Land of Vanity & Folly. This map was copied from Franz von Reilly's Atlas von der Moralischen Welt (1802), which included ten allegorical maps of various imaginary worlds and moral concepts, and was re-engraved by Joseph Hesse for K. Jurende's Mährische Wanderer (1817).
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Condition: B+
Contemporary color in the border on a lightly toned sheet with a bit of offsetting from an opposing page of text.
