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.
5 illustrations
A broad black land mass stretches across the gridded map beside lightly shaded continental outlines.
A pale hatched region labelled Lemuria lies to one side of a large dark continental form.
Hatched ocean regions and dark land masses cross a gridded map with labels for Lemuria and Atlantis.
Rows of four-petalled flowers, crosses, wheels and hooked designs fill a narrow plate.
A circular world map divided by heavy crossing bands shows mountains, rivers and labelled seas.