Accurata Utopiae Tabula Das Ist ... Schlaraffenlandes ...
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Schlaraffenland is the German equivalent of the Land of Cockaigne, the imaginary land of idleness and luxury (famously depicted by Breughel in his painting of 1567). The map follows the theme also famously expressed by Hans Sachs in his poem "Der Meistersinger Von Nurnberg" with a diligently detailed and realistic-looking map of this idle and luxurious world. At first glance, Seutter's map appears very similar to Homann's original concept, first published c.1716, but with more, and somewhat more refined, figures in the title cartouche decoration and at lower left. The geography includes lands of drink, lust and other such vices with the many place and regional names being formed of puns, mainly in German or Latin. A fantastic fantasy map.
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