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.
6 illustrations
A ring of changing moons surrounds a four-part interior containing small symbolic figures.
A bearded man in a folded cap looks sideways from a sharply outlined bust portrait.
A long-horned unicorn lifts its forelegs over low plants beneath a small star.
Two opposed sets of cones are divided by horizontal lines carrying historical dates and bracketed phase numbers.
Two roughly drawn circles share a vertical axis with cardinal letters around their edges.
A numbered ring of waxing and waning moons surrounds crossing diagonals and a horizontal axis.
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