War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - First Publication
A cavalry soldier is hit by a martian heat-ray from a Martian fighting-machine. The War of the Worlds is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866-1946). This plate comes from the first serialised version, published in 1897 by Pearson's Magazine in the UK
Picture No
11980016
Media ID
47650619
Size
4504px x 5561px
(2.7MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by Cosmo Rowe in Pearson's Magazine - Volume III (Jan-June 1897) p363
Date
1897
