Art, Symbol & Imagination
Loisa Infuen: The Radial Martian Plant
Long stems radiate from a single centre towards pointed leaves and small clustered flowers. The almost circular outline gives the plant a formal, diagram-like balance. Its caption names Loisa Infuen within the imagined botany of Journeys to the Planet Mars.
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Citation
Illustrator not identified. "Loisa Infuen: The Radial 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 79. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0073
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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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Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to EntoSara WeissUndated editionMore from this book
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Illustrator not identified. Loisa Infuen: The Radial Martian Plant. Journeys to the Planet Mars; or, Our Mission to Ento. Scan leaf 79. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0392-0073