cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/1043709

Map:

• https://collections.leventhalmap.org/search/commonwealth:3f463773q

Article:

• https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-anciente-mappe-of-fairyland/

Sleigh’s career as an artist had one sole throughline: fairies. Some of his interest in Fairyland evidently stemmed from medical trauma. In the late 1890s, he developed an abscess in his inner ear. Doctors trepanned him, drilling a hole in his skull, and, ever after, he would see otherworldly things.

That site has lots of maps online:

• https://collections.leventhalmap.org/collections