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Blake’s Book of Urizen

Creation and rebellion in Blake’s illuminated plates.

Nielsen’s East of the Sun

Norwegian fairy tales illustrated by Kay Nielsen.

Gnostic Spirit Drawings

Four colour drawings from a 1908 Gnostic text.

Doré’s Dante

From the dark wood to Paradise with Gustave Doré.

The Kingdom of the Gods

Ethelwynne Quail’s visions of the spirit world.

Vassos’s Phobia

Art Deco studies of fear by John Vassos.

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A pale world map carries modern continental outlines together with larger red boundaries. — Artist not recorded
A pale world map carries modern continental outlines together with larger red boundaries.
The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria

Coloured land outlines and fine grid lines cover a world map labelled Ruta and Daitya. — Artist not recorded
Coloured land outlines and fine grid lines cover a world map labelled Ruta and Daitya.
The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria

The familiar outlines of the continents surround a small coloured island in the Atlantic. — Artist not recorded
The familiar outlines of the continents surround a small coloured island in the Atlantic.
The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria

A wide world map combines shaded land areas, a latitude-longitude grid and the heading Atlantis at Its Prime. — Artist not recorded
A wide world map combines shaded land areas, a latitude-longitude grid and the heading Atlantis at Its Prime.
The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria

Broad tinted land masses extend across an evenly ruled world map. — Artist not recorded
Broad tinted land masses extend across an evenly ruled world map.
The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria

Red outlines cross the Pacific and neighbouring regions over a gridded world map. — Artist not recorded
Red outlines cross the Pacific and neighbouring regions over a gridded world map.
The Story of Atlantis and The Lost Lemuria

An oval diagram arranges the seven root races around a horizontal sequence of numbered positions. — Illustrator not identified
An oval path crosses horizontal levels numbered through seven root races.
Sons of the Fire-Mist: A Study of Man

Streaks of light cut across a dense dark sky above crowded buildings and a turbulent foreground. — Illustrator not identified
Streaks of light cut across a dense dark sky above crowded buildings and a turbulent foreground.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

People and animals struggle among deep openings and fractured blocks of earth below a distant hill. — Illustrator not identified
People and animals struggle among deep openings and fractured blocks of earth below a distant hill.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

A great plume spreads from a volcanic cone beneath angular streaks of lightning. — Illustrator not identified
A great plume spreads from a volcanic cone beneath angular streaks of lightning.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

A proposed island occupies the central Atlantic between the surrounding continents. — Illustrator not identified
A proposed island occupies the central Atlantic between the surrounding continents.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

Long bands of stepped geometric masonry cover a ruined facade above low openings and encroaching vegetation. — Illustrator not identified
Long bands of stepped geometric masonry cover a ruined facade above low openings and encroaching vegetation.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

A rounded vessel with a broad open rim is covered in narrow bands of repeated geometric ornament. — Illustrator not identified
A rounded vessel with a broad open rim is covered in narrow bands of repeated geometric ornament.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

A labelled group includes an Irish mould for casting bronze celts, a sickle, a chisel, small rings, a cauldron and a vessel. — Illustrator not identified
A labelled group includes an Irish mould for casting bronze celts, a sickle, a chisel, small rings, a cauldron and a vessel.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

Four long swords with differing handles are arranged beside a broad chipped stone blade. — Illustrator not identified
Four long swords with differing handles are arranged beside a broad chipped stone blade.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

Horizontal courses of dressed stone narrow above a small doorway to create a tall pointed opening, partly blocked by rubble. — Illustrator not identified
Horizontal courses of dressed stone narrow above a small doorway to create a tall pointed opening, partly blocked by rubble.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

A dark rounded vessel has two loop handles, a small lid and a modelled face beneath its narrow neck. — Illustrator not identified
A dark rounded vessel has two loop handles, a small lid and a modelled face beneath its narrow neck.
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World

Hatched ocean regions and dark land masses cross a gridded map with labels for Lemuria and Atlantis. — Illustrator not identified
Hatched ocean regions and dark land masses cross a gridded map with labels for Lemuria and Atlantis.
Lemuria—The Lost Continent of the Pacific

A dark winged figure descends before a brilliant circular opening among clouds, with smaller forms behind and a rounded world below. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
A dark winged figure descends before a brilliant circular opening among clouds, with smaller forms behind and a rounded world below.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

Those Whom God Hath Chained for Ever

D. Bridgman-Metchim

Pale monumental figures loom within a dark oval, one broad draped body facing outward while another appears in profile at the side.

Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

A pale seated figure bends within an oval field of smoky darkness, one large wing sweeping upward beside the body. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
A pale seated figure bends within an oval field of smoky darkness, one large wing sweeping upward beside the body.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

A bright winged figure bends towards a dark, downward-hanging human form amid curling clouds. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
A bright winged figure bends towards a dark, downward-hanging human form amid curling clouds.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

Armed and cloaked figures raise their arms and weapons towards a vast pale wave beyond an uneven landscape. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
Armed and cloaked figures raise their arms and weapons towards a vast pale wave beyond an uneven landscape.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

A pale winged figure rises above a dark rock with one arm extended into the surrounding darkness. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
A pale winged figure rises above a dark rock with one arm extended into the surrounding darkness.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

A long pale wave breaks behind a dark coastal rock, throwing narrow curtains of spray towards the heavy sky. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
A long pale wave breaks behind a dark coastal rock, throwing narrow curtains of spray towards the heavy sky.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

Tiny dark flying forms scatter across a wide landscape beneath clouds and a bright opening near the horizon. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
Tiny dark flying forms scatter across a wide landscape beneath clouds and a bright opening near the horizon.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

A dark winged figure crouches among pale clouds, its head thrust forward beneath a spiked or flame-like crown. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
A dark winged figure crouches among pale clouds, its head thrust forward beneath a spiked or flame-like crown.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

A brilliant diagonal streak cuts through storm clouds towards a dark, broken landscape below. — D. Bridgman-Metchim
A brilliant diagonal streak cuts through storm clouds towards a dark, broken landscape below.
Atlantis: The Book of the Angels

An immense black bird spreads its wings over a pale-robed woman beside rough rocks. — Ernest Prater (signed illustration)
An immense black bird spreads its wings over a pale-robed woman beside rough rocks.
The Lost Continent

A man and a woman stand close together with weapons raised while a hostile crowd presses towards them. — Ernest Prater (signed illustration)
A man and a woman stand close together with weapons raised while a hostile crowd presses towards them.
The Lost Continent

Named circles and connecting lines align gods, elements and the family of Evenor and Cleito. — Illustrator not identified
Named circles and connecting lines align gods, elements and the family of Evenor and Cleito.
Atlantis: An Interpretation

Circles labelled Zeus, Poseidon and Hades connect mind, the Atlantic empire and the lost Atlantis. — Illustrator not identified
Circles labelled Zeus, Poseidon and Hades connect mind, the Atlantic empire and the lost Atlantis.
Atlantis: An Interpretation

A tall stone gateway and steep-roofed tower stand within dense foliage above a descending path. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
A tall stone gateway and steep-roofed tower stand within dense foliage above a descending path.
A Bit of Atlantis

Dark rigging cuts diagonally across a vessel overwhelmed by rolling seas and spray. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
Dark rigging cuts diagonally across a vessel overwhelmed by rolling seas and spray.
A Bit of Atlantis

Tall trunks, dense ferns and tangled foliage enclose a bright opening beside still water. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
Tall trunks, dense ferns and tangled foliage enclose a bright opening beside still water.
A Bit of Atlantis

Several figures stand beside a small tree above a broad sunlit landscape. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
Several figures stand beside a small tree above a broad sunlit landscape.
A Bit of Atlantis

Steep steps climb towards a vast building with towers, domes and richly ornamented walls. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
Steep steps climb towards a vast building with towers, domes and richly ornamented walls.
A Bit of Atlantis

Two small figures enter a luminous chamber lined with towering columns. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
Two small figures enter a luminous chamber lined with towering columns.
A Bit of Atlantis

A pale serpentine apparition rises among palm trees above a mass of small dark figures. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
A pale serpentine apparition rises among palm trees above a mass of small dark figures.
A Bit of Atlantis

A majestic bearded man sits upright among vessels and treasure while visitors enter the chamber. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
A majestic bearded man sits upright among vessels and treasure while visitors enter the chamber.
A Bit of Atlantis

Seabirds cross the foreground above a small boat and open water while smoke rises from a distant wooded summit. — H. Julien and R. G. Mathews (book illustration credits)
Seabirds cross the foreground above a small boat and open water while smoke rises from a distant wooded summit.
A Bit of Atlantis

A moustached man with close-cropped hair wears a dark suit and patterned bow tie. — Photographer not identified
A moustached man with close-cropped hair wears a dark suit and patterned bow tie.
Submerged Atlantis Restored, or Links and Cycles

A woman in a dark high-necked dress wears a small brooch and a cluster of flowers. — Photographer not identified
A woman in a dark high-necked dress wears a small brooch and a cluster of flowers.
Submerged Atlantis Restored, or Links and Cycles

Three circular forms surround a radiant centre within a larger triangular outline. — Illustrator not identified
Three circular forms surround a radiant centre within a larger triangular outline.
Submerged Atlantis Restored, or Links and Cycles

A faint human face appears beneath a crescent moon and star beside small emblematic signs. — Illustrator not identified
A faint human face appears beneath a crescent moon and star beside small emblematic signs.
Submerged Atlantis Restored, or Links and Cycles

Small line drawings compare posts, lintels, curved arches and stepped gateways. — Illustrator not identified
Small line drawings compare posts, lintels, curved arches and stepped gateways.
Submerged Atlantis Restored, or Links and Cycles

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