Art, Symbol & Imagination
Strangers to the Universal Panic
A couple holds each other close at the lower edge while a bright comet breaks across a dark sky. Distant lights and a shadowed landscape surround their small private space. The caption distinguishes their absorption in love from the terror spreading through the novel’s world.
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Illustrator not identified. "Strangers to the Universal Panic" [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 179. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0173
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Illustrator not identified. Strangers to the Universal Panic. Omega: The Last Days of the World. Scan leaf 179. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/gallery-20261108-0405-0173