Alvim Correa's Martian Invasion Scene – War of the Worlds 1906

A young Edwardian woman sits outdoors amid sparse vegetation, gazing downward with quiet unease as the world around her bristles with hidden menace — in the middle distance, a starburst explosion of alien energy erupts from the ground, while a distant figure and streaking diagonal lines in the sky suggest the chaos of a Martian invasion already underway. This is H.G. Wells' England under siege, rendered with extraordinary intimacy and dread by Brazilian master Henrique Alvim Corrêa.