Art, Symbol & Imagination
Isoina: An Imagined Martian Plant
Thin stems branch above a broad fan of long pointed leaves. Dark buds open into many narrow petals around shaded centres. The caption names Isoina, part of the imagined flora described within Weiss’s mediumistic account of the planet called Ento.
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Citation
Illustrator not identified. "Isoina: An Imagined Martian Plant" [editorial title]. In Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento, Sara Weiss. New York: The Bradford Press; undated title, copyright 1908., undated edition, The Bradford Press. Source scan leaf 61. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0055
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Reproduced from the exact historical library edition. The surrounding source presents spiritualist or cosmological claims; the image records that publication rather than verifying those claims. The depicted planetary landscapes or plants belong to the source’s imagined or mediumistic accounts.
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Illustrator not identified. Isoina: An Imagined Martian Plant. Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento. Scan leaf 61. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0055