2,700 Years of Fictional Cartography

From a first edition of Daniel Defoe’s Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, to a world map by Herman Moll, our stand at Frieze Masters this year included:

• Dante’s infernal survey of hell
• The first map of Atlantis, printed in 1665
• A map of ‘Poyais’ created by the fraud Gregor MacGregor, who convinced hundreds of people to invest in and settle in this fictional place
• The first printed map of Oz,  from Munchkinland to the Emerald City
• F. Scott Fizgerald’s map of East Egg, West Egg, and the Valley of Ashes

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