Art, Symbol & Imagination
Come Up into the Sky
A pale female figure appears beside a reclining youth within a small dark vignette. The surrounding text describes the astronomical muse speaking to the narrator in a dream. Her invitation to leave the Earth begins the book’s imagined journey through the heavens.
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Illustrator not identified. "Come Up into the Sky" [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 21. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/urania-come-up-into-the-sky
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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. Come Up into the Sky. Urania. Scan leaf 21. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/urania-come-up-into-the-sky