Dr. Ox's Experiment — Victorian Interior Scene, Illustration by Lorenz Frølich

This engraving illustrates a domestic scene from Jules Verne's satirical novella Dr. Ox's Experiment, set in the placid Flemish town of Quiquendone. A seated townsman converses with a visitor by a window, a watchful dog at his feet, in a modestly cluttered parlor. The image reflects the story's gentle small-town characters before the disruptive effects of Dr. Ox's gas experiment take hold, rendered in the naturalistic linework typical of 19th-century French book illustration rather than horror or laboratory imagery.