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‘The Carpathian Castle’ by Jules Verne, illustrations by Léon Benett.  1893.

Not a ghost…. 19th century HD and 3D.

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Jules Verne,  Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (illustration by Léon Benett)

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Léon Benett (1839-1917), The Carpathian Castle, illustration for a book by Jules Verne

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Léon Benett: Illustration from Jules Verne’s novel La Maison à vapeur, 1880.

In this novel, a group of British colonists travel through India, in the aftermath of the rebellion of 1857, in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant.

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Illustrations drawn by Léon Benett and engraved by Stéphane Pannemaker for Robur-le-Conquérant a.k.a. The Clipper of the Clouds by Jules Verne.  Verne’s name is strongly associated with airships today, though only one of the more than sixty novels he wrote features such vessels.

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‘The Carpathian Castle’ by Jules Verne, illustrations by Léon Benett.  1893.

It is possible that Bram Stoker took inspiration from this for his 1897 novel Dracula.

However in The Carpathian Castle the theme isn’t vampires and magic, but technology.

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Alfred Rethel

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ALFRED RETHEL “Der Tod als Freund” (1851)

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Death As A Cutthroat © Alfred Rethel

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Alfons Mucha - Moon collection

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Alfons Mucha (1896)

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The Moon and The Stars series, 1902 The Moon - The Pole Star - The Morning Star - The Evening Star Alfons Maria Mucha

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Zodiac. 1896. Alphonse Mucha.

19 ½ x 26 in./49.5 x 66 cm

Zodiac “turned out to be one of [Mucha’s] most successful designs … The editor of La Plume liked it so much that he bought it for his magazine almost immediately and started giving it wide publicity … Mucha’s customary circular background here serves the functional role of carrying the symbols of the zodiac. The ornamental shapes and patterns around the perimeter are worked out with a precision and attention to detail unusual even for a meticulous artist like Mucha” (Rennert/Weill, p. 100). This is the original version before the addition of any advertising text or calendarium.

Available at auction June 22.

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Winona ♥️

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Winona Ryder

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