Alvim Corrêa's Fallen Martian Machine, War of the Worlds 1906

Created in 1906 for the landmark Belgian illustrated edition of H.G. Wells' 'La Guerre des Mondes,' this pen-and-ink drawing by Henrique Alvim Corrêa captures a crashed or toppled Martian fighting-machine amid churned rubble and debris. At a moment when Wells' 1898 invasion narrative was reshaping popular imagination about extraterrestrial threat, Corrêa's dynamic cross-hatching and explosive compositional energy rendered the alien tripod's defeat with visceral, almost journalistic urgency, making this edition among the most celebrated visual interpretations of the novel.