# FlammarionWoodcut

- By: AnonymousUnknown author
- Date: 1888
- Classification: Painting
- Credit line: Camille Flammarion, L'Atmosphere: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888), pp. 163
- Museum: [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:FlammarionWoodcut.jpg)
- Rights: Public domain
- Picture: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/FlammarionWoodcut.jpg/1920px-FlammarionWoodcut.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The Flammarion engraving is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in Camille Flammarion's L'atmosphère: météorologie populaire (1888). The image depicts a man crawling under the edge of the sky, depicted as if it were a solid hemisphere, to look at the mysterious Empyrean beyond. The caption translates to "A medieval missionary tells that he has found the point where heaven and Earth meet..."