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 dark horned figure stands behind a pale goat and a heap of angular bones.
A standing woman holds a long ritual object above two tall vessels while smaller figures cluster beside her.
Faces, raised arms and bent bodies fill the frame without a clear division between foreground and background.
A kneeling woman throws both arms upwards beneath heavy cloud-like shapes.
A pale woman on hands and knees faces a goat beneath a crowded group of dark figures.
A crouching woman presses close to a large horned figure with long arms and a patterned body.
The upper photograph places a seated woman behind a row of tall drums among standing participants.
A broad group dressed in white gathers beneath leafy trees around a seated woman.
A small white grave marker stands above vessels in the upper photograph.
A standing woman in a pale dress holds a long object beside another woman seated near a woven screen.
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