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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Rows of compact symbols are paired with names of metals, salts, liquids and laboratory processes.
A long-bearded man in a patterned robe raises a small flaming vessel above his head beside laboratory equipment.
A bearded man works at a table crowded with tools and vessels while another worker tends a furnace beyond the doorway.
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