Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Waters Covering the Face of the Earth
A dark ocean extends beneath broken clouds and a low band of light. White crests repeat across the foreground towards the distant horizon. The caption turns the seascape into a vision of a water-covered world within Flammarion’s argument about the Earth’s distant future.
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Illustrator not identified. "The Waters Covering the Face of the Earth" [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 98. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0092
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Illustrator not identified. The Waters Covering the Face of the Earth. Omega: The Last Days of the World. Scan leaf 98. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0092