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.
5 illustrations
A circular dark field carries the brightest stars of the northern hemisphere, divided by crossing coordinate lines.
White star points fill a circular dark field crossed by coordinate divisions.
Orion occupies the centre of a rectangular star chart, with Taurus, Eridanus and Lepus named in the surrounding field.
A tall rectangular star map plots scattered points, short connecting lines and dotted boundaries against a dark field.
The bright points of the Southern Cross appear within a rectangular dark field among smaller stars.
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