Discover historical illustrations by subject, artist and book.
Creation and rebellion in Blake’s illuminated plates.
Norwegian fairy tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen.
Four colour drawings from a 1908 Gnostic text.
From the dark wood to Paradise with Gustave Doré.
Ethelwynne Quail’s visions of the spirit world.
Art Deco studies of fear by John Vassos.
10 illustrations
Five white discs occupy the points of a star against a black field.
A crowned, bearded figure is mirrored upside down inside an oval serpent border.
An upright bearded face and an inverted dark face meet across opposed triangular fields.
Two opposed human figures extend their limbs inside a thin oval border, their bodies joined across a horizontal division.
Alternating rays radiate from a dark central field containing a pale triangle and a bold letter-like form.
Seven circular emblems branch from a central stem, each joining a different image or geometric design with a planetary or metal label.
A gesturing figure faces an assembled company beneath a tumult of airborne bodies and winged forms.
A crowned figure stands over a flaming vessel beneath a radiant sky, holding a long implement beside dark animal-like forms.
A divided circular wheel combines human and animal forms, small internal emblems and surrounding inscriptions.
Seven circular emblems surround a central field of Greek and Hebrew lettering.
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