Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Radiant Figure and the Star-Crowned Company
A luminous woman rises through a band of cloud above figures with bright star-like signs on their foreheads. Dark space and flowing engraved lines surround the company. The printed credit names Jean-Paul Laurens in Flammarion’s speculative novel of the world’s future.
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Jean-Paul Laurens. "The Radiant Figure and the Star-Crowned Company" [editorial title]. In Omega: The Last Days of the World, Camille Flammarion; multiple illustrators credited in the supplied title. New York: The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company; undated title, copyright 1894 by J. B. Walker., undated edition, The Cosmopolitan Publishing Company. Source scan leaf 23. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0017
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Jean-Paul Laurens. The Radiant Figure and the Star-Crowned Company. Omega: The Last Days of the World. Scan leaf 23. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0017