Daedongyeojido-full
1861
- Classification
- Painting
- Museum
- Wikimedia Commons
- Credit line
- http://147.46.103.182/OIS/GZ2/VIEWER.jsp?maptype=DD001
- Rights
- Public domain, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Daedongyeojido ("The Great Map of the East Land") is a full scale[Please clarify – January 2014] map of Korea produced in 1861. Although no modern survey techniques were used, it is remarkably similar to modern maps. This marks the zenith of pre-modern Korean cartography; this file is the full mozaic version of it, which can be read just as easily as a Google interactive map. JPG(99 MB) mirror, PNG(618 MB) mirror. All three extant copies of the map are designated as secondary national treasures of South Korea; this one is treasure item number 850-3, which is owned by Seoul National University's Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies. Stamps on the map indicate its ownership (""서울 大學校 圖書" for "Seoul National University's book"; "朝鮮総督府圖書之印" for "stamp of Governor-General of Korea"; and "奎章閣韓國學圖書" for Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies. See discussion of stamps here.
