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 crowned figure rides a fantastic bird-headed creature surrounded by coiling serpents.
Several figures gather around a tilted, inscribed circle in a wooded landscape.
A pale, upright figure stands within a circle before two men in a moonlit burial ground.
A seated, turbaned astronomer lifts a telescope towards a starry sky.
A standing man raises a whip over a kneeling man among palms and tall reeds.
Baskets line a shelf inside a broad stone arch, while a horned head and skeleton lie beneath a bright oval opening.
Flames and curling smoke rise among a densely packed city’s towers and roofs.
Attendants gather around a great royal bed beneath a canopy topped by a crown.
A veiled female apparition stands beside a frightened man who has raised himself in a curtained bed.
A standing witch-finder appears between two seated women while named animal familiars occupy the foreground.
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