Mr S. Addison described his work as the best Steampunk art ever – and while that’s high praise indeed, I’d be put in an akward spot if I were to be asked to say who my favourite was – but Harry Grant Dart would be in the top five, at least!

Originally a newspaper cartoonist (before photography in newspapers) Mr Dart would travel around the world to document important meetings and events. Eventually he became art director for his newspaper and created the comic “The Explorigator” – a series following a young child captain of an airship, with his equally young and adventurous crew. The page linked to there, has the Explorigator and its crew on the moon!

But Harry Grant Dart also drew some amazing ‘future’ flight machines, including the image above. Many looking like space-age sea-ships, despite being drawn at the turn of the 20th Century. Some were delightfully Steampunk (and so they should be – being Victorian Science Fiction au naturale) and others still generate wonder and curiosity more than a hundred years later. Lovely stuff.