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
A haloed Saint John holds a pen and book within a tall border filled with interlace and geometric compartments.
A great cross and circular geometric centre divide a densely ornamented rectangular field.
Birds and small animals inhabit an intricate field of curling foliage.
Two pale birds occupy separate red hexagonal panels, one with wings extended broadly and the other turning into a narrower rising curve.
Two tall rectangular panels carry symmetrical floral scrolls, vessel shapes and curling leaves.
A wide-sleeved ceremonial garment carries a great central sacred assembly surrounded by small crosses and additional figures.
Seated sacred figures occupy framed panels among scrolling roundels and dense stitched borders.
A semicircular cope carries three crowned portcullises surrounded by sweeping rose stems, with a figured border along its straight edge.
Dark interlacing bands divide a pale ground into diamond compartments occupied by birds, floral forms and small badges.
Large flowers, lobed leaves and swelling seed-like forms interlock across a pale textile ground.
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