Posters and Prints

Jules VERNE lithographie originale
Julie DUPRAS Années 1980
des Images de Jules VERNE

These lithographs of JulesVerne are by Julie Dupras. Their origin is not 100% clear.

It has been reported to me, that it is possible that there were created at the request of the Editor Jean de Bonnot when they released the re-print of the works of Jules Verne in 1980! (B. Petit a dit qu'une lithographie"a été commandée par l'éditeur Jean de BONNOT quand il a sorti les rééditions des oeuvres de Jules VERNE")
(? Jules VERNE LES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES 32 TOMES, COMPLET 1976 - 1980, Jean de BONNOT In-8 (14 x 21 cm), reliés ?)

They are a signed and numbered editions of 250 each, and measuring (a small) 13.4 x 20.5 cm (#1 below) and 14 x 20.9 cm (#2 below)

PLEASE: If you have any information on this series of lithographs, please contact me, and let me know. I would also like to know more about the artist Julie Dupras, but I have been unable to find any information on her in Google!

**** What I find odd, is that I have seen an alternate lithographe for the first image, although it is based on the same image of Jules Verne. See image below... there are more white lines in the colar of Jules' jacket!

Very odd to make 2 versions of one of the images!

Each image has a stamp on the reverse to indicate that it is "Estampe Garantie Originale" ("Guaranteed Original"):

Franklin Mint,
Limited edition for 150th Anniversary
of Jules Verne's Birth - 1978
Artist: David McCall Johnston

As the certificate on each print indicates, these Lithographs use 25 seperate colours, and though "limited", the size of the release is not indicated.

The themes of the 4 lithographs are:

• Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
• Five Weeks in  a Balloon
• Around the World in 80 Days
• Journey to the Centre of the Earth

The images in this series of 3, are reproductions of images that Francois Schuiten created for the Hachette edition of Paris au XXe siècle, 1995.

Hachette edition of Paris au XXe siècle, 1995

	Schuiten - images from Paris au XXe siècle (External links)
	1	2	3	4	5	6
	7	8	9	10	11	12
	13	14	15	16	17

These prints belonged to a whole concept around the Obscure Cities which was never completed. There were to be 4 signed reproductions carried out at the time (circa 1993) but it is believed that only 3 of the 4 were actually printed.

The 4 signed reproductions were to be:

1) 1993. Titre de passage 1. Bruxelles-Mylos. 42x60 cm. Offset. 300 ex. n/s. (Inédit pour la station Porte de Hal). Repris en CP.

2) 1994. Titre de passage 2. Du Botanique à Calvani. 42x60 cm. Offset. 500 ex. n/s. (Le rêve de Nadar a Michel Ardan).

3) 1994. Titre de passage 3. Des Arts et Métiers aux portes d’Armilia. 42x60 cm. Offset. 500 ex. n/s. (cf. couv. de l’album D3).

format of this print is actually 30 x 42 cm (not the 42x60 listed above!)

(***NOTE: the image on this Print, is the Paris Metro station Arts et Metiérs,
which was designed by F. Schuiten, in hommage to Jules Verne)

4) 1995. Titre de passage 4. Des Voyages Extraordinaires aux Cités Obscures. 42x60 cm. 300 ex. n/s. (cf. couv. de l’éd. de poche du livre 3).

format of this print is actually 30 x 42 cm (not the 42x60 listed above!)

Below is the information written on the poster:
Titre de passage vers les Cités Obscures
Des Voyages Extraordinaires		aux Cites Obscures
Jules Verne		Michel Ardan
Tirage limité à 500 exemplaires
Les Controleurs en Chef de Paris		Le Voyageur Les Assesseurs de Pâhry
James Rooms and Philippe Blampain		F. Schuiten et B. Peeters
Cachet of "Les Amis d'Hetzel"

Note: Pâhry is a Major Obscure City, east of the Desert of Somonites

Note 2: Michel Ardan is a character in From the Earth to the Moon, and also a journalist in the Obscure Cities

Hetzel yearly book release posters