Art, Symbol & Imagination
A Figure beneath the Stars
A solitary dark figure sits or leans beside a low horizontal barrier beneath a field of stars. The small rounded image fades into the pale page around it. It introduces the contemplative astronomical setting of Camille Flammarion’s Urania.
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Illustrator not identified. "A Figure beneath the Stars" [editorial title]. In Urania, Camille Flammarion; translated by Augusta Rice Stetson; illustrated by de Bieler, Myrbach and Gambard. Undated Boston illustrated edition with an 1890 copyright statement, undated edition, Estes and Lauriat. Source scan leaf 12. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/urania-beneath-the-stars
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Editorial title. The complete original page is preserved without cropping or retouching. The title page credits three illustrators collectively; an individual attribution for this image has not been established.
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Illustrator not identified. A Figure beneath the Stars. Urania. Scan leaf 12. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/urania-beneath-the-stars