The Ancient mappe of Fairyland… by Bernard Sleigh depicts a place loosely defined as one of fantasy, literary imagination and make-believe. It is a bird’s-eye view of an island with extraordinary topography, populated with a complete range of myth, fable, legend, nursery rhyme, children’s story, play and poem.

Journeying across it, one might pass through Peter Pan’s Never-Never Land to Avalon and the medieval legend of King Arthur, via Puss in Boots, Hansel and Gretel, and Oberon’s shield.

Size of print: 24 x 88cm

Unmounted, comes in tube.

An ancient mappe of Fairyland, Bernard Sleigh, 1918, L.R.270.a.46.7

Brand: British Library