etched glass gallery

Flammarion woodcut engraving

Copy of a woodcut engraving by an unknown artist that originally appeared in Camille Flammarion's 1888 book L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire ("The Atmosphere: Popular Meteorology")

Mounted on a box canvas

50 x 50 cm

Nautilus

Quote round the edge is from Oliver Wendall Holmes (1809-94)poem "The Chambered Nautilus"

"Year after year beheld the silent toil
That spread his lustrous coil;
Still, as the spiral grew,
He left the past year’s dwelling for the new,
Stole with soft step its shining archway through,
Built up its idle door,
Stretched in his last-found home, and knew the old no more." Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-94)