The Moon's Surface from Space - 'Around the Moon' Engraving c.1870

Illustration from Jules Verne's 'Around the Moon' (Autour de la Lune), the sequel to 'From the Earth to the Moon,' depicting the projectile's-eye view of the cratered lunar surface against a star-filled void. Rendered by Émile-Antoine Bayard and Alphonse de Neuville for the Hetzel edition, the wood engraving emphasizes jagged crater rims and pitted terrain with dense crosshatching, evoking the Victorian fascination with space travel and the mysteries of the Moon's far side as imagined in Verne's pioneering lunar voyage narrative.