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.
9 illustrations
A ram-headed deity stands within a shrine upon a long ceremonial boat.
A dark zigzag passage crosses a sloping band of hieroglyphs above standing gods and a solar boat.
Figures and long serpents occupy several sloping registers beneath rows of hieroglyphs.
Three registers show groups of mummiform deities beneath hieroglyphic labels.
A seated mummiform god faces a lioness-headed goddess and a serpent with a woman’s head.
A bearded mummiform deity reclines within a dark boat.
Two seated goddesses flank intertwined serpents beneath a dark disk.
Six reclining human forms lie within separate bands of patterned water.
Four figures stand beneath a rounded enclosure above two groups of deities.
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