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
Profile figures with crowns, animal heads and long staffs stand in three rows.
Rows of staff-bearing deities combine animal-headed and human forms with distinctive crowns.
Closely written horizontal lines surround a small procession of Egyptian figures holding staffs.
Small Egyptian figures appear above and beside long blocks of closely written text.
Horizontal registers divide boats, standing deities, small figures and columns of signs.
An enthroned figure faces standing deities and an offering table beneath long rows of smaller figures and hieroglyphs.
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