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A pilgrim in a yellow robe kneels at the edge of a green valley — cottages, a church tower, a river, one leafy tree, pink dahlias — and pushes his head straight through the dome of the sky. Inside the dome are gold stars, a crescent moon and a sun with a human face; beyond it, turning wheels and banded cloud in magenta and coral. The engraving first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère in 1888, captioned with a medieval missionary's claim to have found the place where sky and earth meet. Colour was added later.
The starry dome and the striped upper sky are both repeating patterns over large areas, while the green landscape and the kneeling figure come together fast. Finished size 61 x 45.7cm.
Distinct zones of colour and pattern (sky, landscape, celestial machinery) provide good reference, though the detailed engraving style adds moderate challenge.











