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.
10 illustrations
Streaks of light cut across a dense dark sky above crowded buildings and a turbulent foreground.
People and animals struggle among deep openings and fractured blocks of earth below a distant hill.
A great plume spreads from a volcanic cone beneath angular streaks of lightning.
A proposed island occupies the central Atlantic between the surrounding continents.
Long bands of stepped geometric masonry cover a ruined facade above low openings and encroaching vegetation.
A rounded vessel with a broad open rim is covered in narrow bands of repeated geometric ornament.
A labelled group includes an Irish mould for casting bronze celts, a sickle, a chisel, small rings, a cauldron and a vessel.
Four long swords with differing handles are arranged beside a broad chipped stone blade.
Horizontal courses of dressed stone narrow above a small doorway to create a tall pointed opening, partly blocked by rubble.
A dark rounded vessel has two loop handles, a small lid and a modelled face beneath its narrow neck.
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