Beim Public Domain Review gibt es eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Henrique Alvim Corrêas fantastischen Illustrationen für die 1906er Ausgabe von H. G. Wells' Roman The War of the Worlds. Hat auch ein bisschen was von Lovecraft meets Steampunk und sich sofort in mein Hirn gebrannt.
Neun ausgewählte Bilder, mehr Illustrationen und Hintergründe beim Public Domain Review
One can see the reason for Wells’ enthusiasm. Every one of Corrêa’s illustrations bursts with imagination, eliciting fascination and terror. The post-apocalyptic landscape introducing Book One, “The Arrival of the Martians” — with its extraterrestrial tripods (looking like a cross between octopuses and water towers) and its impressive depth of field — presages not only the surrealist style of painting then brewing in Paris but the Hollywood sci-fi movies of the 1950s, with their campy mix of silliness and horror.
Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)
Illustrations by a little-known Brazilian artist for the first French translation of H. G. Wells’ science-fiction classic.
(via Open Culture)