Henrique Alvim Corrêa – War of the Worlds 1906, Sleepless Narrator

Executed in urgent, slashing pen-and-ink strokes, this dual-scene composition places a wild-haired, disheveled man crouching at a window on the left — his silhouette taut with dread — while a second, older figure sits at a candlelit table on the right, his grotesquely exaggerated features twisted in alarm. The nervous cross-hatching amplifies a claustrophobic tension, capturing the psychological fracture of two men trapped indoors as Martian terror rages beyond the walls.