Jules Verne's Around the Moon – Observers at the Telescope, 1870

Drawn from Jules Verne's 'Around the Moon' (Autour de la Lune, 1870), this engraving captures the anxious lunar observers — Barbicane, Nicholl, and Michel Ardan — crowding a porthole aboard their projectile-spacecraft, a map of the Moon visible on the wall behind them. A dog, likely Satellite, scrambles at their heels. The scene crackles with Victorian scientific wonder, rendered in rich cross-hatched engraving by Bayard and de Neuville, Verne's signature illustrators.