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 small barred capsule moves beside a great pale fan of cometary light.
A row of tiny planetary discs expands into the large globes of the outer planets, with Saturn’s rings projecting beyond its sphere.
Small armed travellers ride the shell of a huge tortoise beneath tall fern-like trees.
A huge dark insect dominates the foreground beneath raised trunks, tusks and wings.
A traveller stands among towering flowers beneath a broad arc of light.
A large barred capsule hangs below Saturn’s tilted rings in a dark field of stars.
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