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.
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Angels rise and turn among clouds beneath a smaller heavenly company seated in a bright opening.
A luminous procession of winged figures crosses a high ridge while two human bodies bend low upon the foreground rock.
A kneeling woman raises her arms before a mounted ruler and an assembled company carrying standards and weapons.
A long line of robed figures passes beside dark trees and low water, their bodies lit against the shadowed wood.
A shining ascent crowded with luminous figures rises through immense banks of cloud.
A young warrior raises a weapon above overlapping soldiers, serpentine forms and fallen bodies.
A spread-eagled figure is fixed to the ground while the two travellers and heavily clothed inhabitants stand around him.
Armed, winged figures raise lashes over an exposed procession, while two cloaked travellers watch from the bank.
A group gathers beside small boats on a wooded shore while one figure raises a long leaf.
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