Details
VERNE, JULES (1828-1905). Cabinet photograph inscribed and signed ("Jules Verne"), by Nadar, Paris (imprint on mount verso), n.d. [circa 1900]. 153 x 100 mm. (6 x 3 15/16 in.) including mount, minor rubbing at corners, imprint on mount verso obscured by glue and paper remnants from previous mounting. A bust-length profile portrait, inscribed in French to Dudley Payne Lewis (dated "16 Aôut 1900") on the mount.
"The French novelist (Around the World in Eighty Days), not only predicted a moon flight (along with submarines, radar, dirigibles, and a host of other technological prophecies), but picked for its launch a spot twenty miles from Cape Canaveral"--W.M.
"The French novelist (Around the World in Eighty Days), not only predicted a moon flight (along with submarines, radar, dirigibles, and a host of other technological prophecies), but picked for its launch a spot twenty miles from Cape Canaveral"--W.M.
Provenance
The Cornelius Greenway Collection (sale, Part I, Sotheby Parke Bernet, 20 November 1970, lot 58).