Albert Robida

Albert Robida (14 May 1848 – 11 October 1926) was a French illustrator, etcher, lithographer, caricaturist, and novelist.

His fame disappeared after World War I. Robida and his wife Marguerite (née Noiret) had seven children, three of which made contributions to the arts.

His youngest son, Henry, had been tabbed to serve as consulting architect to the government of Siam (today Thailand), but his life was cut short by World War I.

In addition to several collaborations with her father, she was published in periodicals such as Le Journal pour tous and La Poupée modèle.

His La Guerre au vingtième siècle describes modern warfare, with robotic missiles and poison gas.

Nouvelle carte d'Europe
La Guerre Infernale , Episode 2, January 1908
"Maison tournante aérienne" (aerial rotating house). One of Robida's drawings for his book Le Vingtième Siècle , a nineteenth-century conception of life in the twentieth century. Ink over graphite underdrawing, c. 1883, digitally restored.
La Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 (c. 1902, digitally restored)