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.
4 illustrations
A winged steersman rises over a close company of pale figures arriving across the water.
A crowned figure holds joined hands at the centre of an enclosure of great wings.
A small device trails a great fan of fine lines above a broad flower with curled dark petals.
Immense pale wings spread above a fallen woman and a bending figure.
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