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"Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea" - Novel Interior Illustration by Mahendra Singh

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Title:	"Twenty Trillion Leagues Under the Sea" - Novel Interior Illustration by Mahendra Singh
Artist:	Mahendra Singh (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	100
Likes on CAF:	2 3
Comments:	1
Added to Site:	3/29/2024
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Description

I came across Mahendra Singh through The Beguiling original art website and loved what I saw. I am a huge fan of old illustrations in the late 19th and early 20th century journals/magazines and books. The style of the old lithographs and just classic hard earned painstacking illustrations. I also collect old printer's blocks and anyways....Mahendra's work is just really something to see in hand.

This one is of sea monsters with the majority of it done with simple lines of which the thinness and thickness creates the depth of the deep. A lone man stands on one as he witnesses a new world...twenty trillion leagues under the sea!

My scanner couldn't handle this level of detailed work so I took a picture of it which, while not perfectly framed, does a better job of capturing the piece.

Now read on to learn a bit more about this novel, author and illustrator.

About the Author:
Adam Roberts is a novelist whose titles include Adam Robots, By Light Alone, The Dragon with the Girl Tattoo, Gradisil, I Am Scrooge, Jack Glass, New Model Army, Salt, Swiftly, and Yellow Blue Tibia. His work has been nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the Philip K. Dick Award. Mahendra Singh is a freelance illustrator whose Melville House illustrated edition of The Hunting of the Snark was praised by Library Journal, the New Yorker, Salon.com, and Shelf Awareness.

Synopsis of the Novel:
Adam Roberts revisits Jules Verne's classic novel in a collaboration with the illustrator behind a recent highly acclaimed edition of The Hunting of the Snark

It is 1958 and France's first nuclear submarine, Plongeur, leaves port for the first of its sea trials. On board, gathered together for the first time, are one of the Navy's most experienced captains and a tiny skeleton crew of sailors, engineers, and scientists. The Plongeur makes her first dive and goes down, and down and down. Out of control, the submarine plummets to a depth where the pressure will crush her hull, killing everyone on board, and beyond. The pressure builds, the hull protests, the crew prepare for death, the boat reaches the bottom of the sea and finds nothing. Her final dive continues, the pressure begins to relent, but the depth guage is useless. They have gone miles down. Hundreds of miles, thousands, and so it goes on. Onboard the crew succumb to madness, betrayal, religious mania, and murder. Has the Plongeur left the limits of our world and gone elsewhere? Contains 33 full page pen and ink illustrations.

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James Dornoff
Member Since 2019

Posted on 6/7/2024

Amazing detailing and hatchmark work. Really technical piece that is gorgeous.

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