Moon Goddess with Lunar Face, Jules Verne Era Engraving c.1865

Dense cross-hatched ink lines dissolve into a star-scattered night sky as a robed, headless figure floats above billowing clouds — its neck crowned not with flesh but with a luminous full moon, its surface alive with swirling craters and enigmatic eyes. The anthropomorphized Moon, a personified celestial body draped in classical robes, embodies the 19th-century Romantic collision of mythology and nascent astronomical science, perfectly suited to the fantastic voyage literature of Jules Verne's era.