Art, Symbol & Imagination
Valseta: An Imagined Martian Flowering Plant
A low fan of long leaves supports many branching stems of buds and small flowers. Dark hatching distinguishes the closed buds from the open rounded petals. The plant’s printed name, Valseta, belongs to the book’s visionary account of Martian life.
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Citation
Illustrator not identified. "Valseta: An Imagined Martian Flowering 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 65. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0059
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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. Valseta: An Imagined Martian Flowering Plant. Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento. Scan leaf 65. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0059