Jules Verne's César Cascabel 1890 — Silhouetted Travelers at Night

From Jules Verne's 1890 adventure novel César Cascabel, published by Hetzel, this dramatic pen-and-ink plate depicts two silhouetted figures standing amid wild vegetation at night, with darkened buildings or wagons looming behind them. The heavy chiaroscuro technique renders the travelers as near-total shadow against a stormy, cross-hatched sky, conveying tension and mystery befitting Verne's tale of a travelling circus family's overland journey from California to Europe via the frozen Arctic.