Benett, Léon (1839-1917)

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Name
Benett, Léon (1839-1917)
Nationality
French

Assets (23 in total)

Illustration of the novel by Jules Verne “” Le chateau des Carpathes””, edition Hetzel/Voyages extraordinaire 1892, drawing by Leon Benett. The magister Hermod evokes the castle with dragons, fees, demons, spectra, revenants...
Frontispice of Jules Verne's novel “The Green Ray””, Hetzel collection/Extraordinary Voyages 1882. Drawing by Leon Benett.
drawing by Leon Benett, from the book of Jules Verne “” The 500 million of the Begum”” - edition Hetzel/Extraordinary Voyages 1879. hammer drummer (drummer) at work in a steel foundry.
Illustration of Jules Verne's novel “Le chateau des Carpathes””, edition Hetzel/Voyages extraordinaire, written between 1884 and 1889, published in 1892, drawing by Leon Benett. La Stilla, a late singer, appeared in Franz de Telek, thanks to a device designed by Rodolphe de Gortz. It is customary to say that J. Verne has imagined a television camera here. In “” Jules Verne, le reve du progres””, Jean-Paul Dekiss wrote: “” by inventing the hologram, Jules Verne combines phonograph, photography and cinematographer. He invents an effect similar to those produced by laser rays and gives love the light of the fantasy of future inventions.”
illustration of Jules Verne's novel “” Keraban the stubborn””, Hetzel collection/extraordinary voyages 1883. Drawing by Leon Benett: the port of Kertsch (Crimea), on the Strait of Iénikale, between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azof.
Frontispice of the novel by Jules Verne “L'Ecole des Robinsons””, Hetzel collection/Voyages extraordinaire 1882. Drawing by Leon Benett, paying tribute, at the top right, to the Robinson and Friday by Daniel de Foe or Defoe (1660 - 1731).
Mountain stream with rocks and waterfall in the middle of a forest. Drawing by Leon Benett grave by Meaulle for the Hetzel edition of the book by Elysee (Elisee) Reclus (1830-1905) “” Histoire d'un ruisseau”” late 19th century -
Illustration for Jules Verne “Tribulations of a Chinaman in China”, 1879 (engraving)
Drawing by Leon Benett, from the book of Jules Verne “The 500 million of the Begum”” - edition Hetzel/Extraordinary Voyages 1879. View of the “Steel City”, gigantic set of factories (blast furnaces - steel foundries)
drawing by Leon Benett, from the book of Jules Verne “The Tribulations of a Chinese in China”” - Hetzel edition/Extraordinary Voyages 1879.
Drawing by Leon Benett, from the book of Jules Verne “The 500 million of the Begum”” - edition Hetzel/Extraordinary Voyages 1879. Appearance of Arminius and Sigimer, two impressive bearded.
drawing by Leon Benett, from the book of Jules Verne “The 500 million of the Begum”” - edition Hetzel/Extraordinary Voyages 1879. A team of pudlers working in a steel foundry - cast iron ingots thrown in the oven.

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