War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells - First Publication
A Martian fighting machine in Kew Gardens capturing fleeing people with its long tentacles and picking them up before tossing them into the great metallic carrier which projected behind it. 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
11980095
Media ID
47651943
Size
3678px x 6410px
(2.0MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by Warwick Goble (1862-1943) in Pearson's Magazine - Volume V (July-Dec 1897) p455
Date
1897


