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
Small travellers cross a high platform above a city of brightly coloured towers, domes and striped roofs.
A seated woman spreads a broad patterned skirt beneath a red disc containing a fantastic fish.
A fantastic company gathers in two groups beneath dark flowering branches.
An impossible company of long-limbed figures and bird-like creatures occupies a dark blue landscape.
Two small figures stand near the opening of a red-framed enclosure.
Three slender dancers hold hands below a group of seated spectators.
A small passenger sits within a richly patterned sedan-chair carried by two fantastically dressed attendants.
Several companions gather around a low table beneath dark branches and an immense golden disc.
A thin bearded man in ragged clothes stands among long vertical canes.
Three thin figures stand together with impossibly long legs and arms.
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