Alvim Corrêa's Flooded London Streets – War of the Worlds 1906

Henrique Alvim Corrêa, the Brazilian-born illustrator celebrated for his hauntingly atmospheric pen-and-ink work, renders a deceptively tranquil English riverside scene in this plate from the landmark 1906 Belgian edition of H.G. Wells's 'La Guerre des Mondes.' His cross-hatching and loose, expressive linework evoke a quiet suburban idyll — overgrown houses, a gas lamp, leafy waterways — yet the context transforms it into eerie post-invasion desolation, the stillness made sinister by the implied absence of humanity.