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.
4 illustrations
A crowned woman holding a cup sits above the heads of a great beast.
A bare-chested man kneels or bends before a group of clerics in an ornate interior.
A friar stands at the edge of disturbed ground where several bodies are exposed.
A seated cleric bends towards the bare foot of a pilgrim while other men wait nearby.