Jules Verne 'From the Earth to the Moon' Original French Edition Illustrations

Executed in the precise engraving tradition of the Hetzel illustrated editions, these two engravings likely bear the influence of Édouard Riou or Henri de Montaut, artists synonymous with Jules Verne's canonical visual vocabulary. The left plate depicts passengers struggling under gravitational forces inside the lunar projectile, while the right plate — striking in its stark black field — shows the conical capsule drifting through star-studded space, a small figure tumbling free in the void, anticipating concepts of spacewalking by nearly a century.