The Dark Art Of Martin van Miele

Martin van Miële was a renowned French illustrator of bizarre erotic drawings, often with religious (or should be sacrilegious themes). He did a lot of illustrations for the noted British erotica publisher Charles Carrington, but found more widely acclaimed fame as the illustrator of H.G. Wells's First Men On The Moon in 1901 (Les Premiers Hommes dans la Lune), which was turned in to the early silent-era classic movie by Georges Méliès, Le Voyage Dans La Lune in 1902. Miële also illustrated for the French translation versions of the Sherlock Holmes series, but it's his strange satirical erotic illustrations that he has become most well known for.

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