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 towering traveller in a green coat stands amid brightly coloured domes and small houses.
Gulliver stands in a dark coat while tiny people gather below his shoes and on nearby supports.
A small acrobat leaps over a horizontal stick while another figure crawls below it.
Mounted figures point long weapons towards their opponents above broken egg forms.
Small figures rush through a palace courtyard beneath great bands of red and orange flame.
Three enormous faces and a sickle loom above a dense stand of corn.
A young woman in a long orange dress sits beside an immense red chair.
A small traveller holds a rope beneath a broad red sail as his boat tips over curling water.
A monkey perches high on a roof while clutching the tiny traveller.
A workman bends over an opening with a saw and a small stool near his hands.
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