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 tall cloaked figure occupies a great architectural opening above a compact crowd.
A small upright figure confronts a sky filled with great curling cloud forms.
A hooded figure appears beside an immense face emerging from a dark, rocky setting.
A great dark structure rises above a steep approach where small figures gather below.
A great boar-like beast charges through a dark landscape beneath an immense arcing form.
Pale floating figures appear among bright circular and cloud-like forms.
A white-cloaked figure stands before an immense carved seat or monument.
Columns frame a raised tomb beneath a dark, star-filled sky.
A robed figure holds an instrument within a landscape of suspended forms and distant lights.
Small musicians and elongated dancing figures fill an elaborately patterned interior.
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