We were watching,
a television series based on stories written by H. G. Wells, so today We thought We would post a few pictures from another famous science fiction writer, the illustrations of JulesVerne classic, From the Earth to the Moon (De la terre à la lune),
which left the Baltimore Gun Club’s bullet-shaped projectile, along with its
three passengers and dog, hurtling through space,
the set of images, arguably the very first to depict space travel on a scientific basis, were the work of the French illustrators Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville,
the illustrations appeared some 5 years after the novel was first published,
but for his fans,
they were a real glimpse of perhaps Things To Come,
as an aside despite the brilliance and vision of these
illustrations, it is for a wholly more terrestrial image for which Bayard is
best known today, a sketch of the sad-eyed Cosette, which he completed
for the original edition of Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables (1865), and which for
the last four decades or so, Tricolour-infused, has adorned playbills and
theatre hoardings the world over in service of Claude-Michel Schönberg’s hugely
popular musical, “Les Mis”, to see more of his work have a look here.
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