Quakers – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:16:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Quakers – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Allegorical, Dissected and Spiritual https://www.maproomblog.com/2022/07/allegorical-dissected-and-spiritual/ Thu, 07 Jul 2022 23:16:17 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1808015 More]]> Writing in Commonplace, Janet Moore Lindman looks at the use of spiritual maps in early America, focusing in particular on a curious 1794 combination of dissected map (a jigsaw-like map puzzle) and allegorical map (where  virtues or vices or other abstract ideals are depicted as countries on a map) produced for the education of Quaker children.

The production of Dillwyn’s 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’s map made use of little color, had few illustrations, contained no human figures, and relied heavily on the written word to convey meaning.

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