Rare War of the Worlds Art

I dont usually upload other peoples work, but this here is a rare concept picture from Ray harryhausens The War of the Worlds project that never was. He offered the idea of a movie based off of HG Wells classic Science-fiction Romance novel but noone was interested. Even George Pal turned him down eventually, after much attention. But George Pal went off to produce his own rendition of the story which we all know today with the calssic floating swan-like machines.

Rays full vision of his movie never worked its way past concept sketches and test animation.
The animation of the Martian emerging from the crashed Cylinder be found all over the internet.

This picture I have never seen before. I own 3 massive books on the Art of Stop Motion animation, one specifically on Ray's work. But this picture I have never seen, and am glad I have.
Apparently the site the image came from closed down, and was ironically that famous War of the Worlds website that was shut down a few years ago. Why it closed down is beyond me, but It saddens me to see such historical work, especially from Ray's early animations, become lost for those that are interested.

This is the only quality I could get from this image. There is another book based off of Rays work that might include more of his War of the Worlds work. Ill try and get my hands on it

~Enjoy