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.
45 illustrations
A grasping brown projection and a cloud of inward hooks show two forms of desire in the authors' moral scheme.
Two men watch a distant woman crossing a rough mountainous landscape.
Small figures cluster within a compact woodland ornament beneath the contents list.
A long-haired woman stands in a boat at the edge of a moonlit lake, reaching towards a man who raises both hands.
A young woman in a tall hat is surrounded by tiny dancing figures, with musicians playing small harps at either side.
Two men face one another at a cottage doorway.
A man seated in a chair is held above a lively crowd of women, who raise their hands and look up towards him.
A standing man holds a tall staff wound with flowers, drawing the attention of a gathering beside him.
A crowd gathers outside a building around a coffin on a bier.
A haloed mother holds a child above a crowded base of curling creatures.
A long-haired figure bends beside a candle taller than the small people gathered around its stand.
A young man looks outward while a taller pointed-eared companion stands behind him.
Four sharply contrasted bodies join hands across a narrow rectangular field.
Several eyes and faces look outward from a long horizontal creature above the contents.
An elongated reclining body extends a hand towards a small standing figure.
A horned architectural frame encloses two grotesque figures facing one another above the word Preface.
A tall central figure stands between two semicircular fields of radiating lines.
A broad-robed figure spreads its arms above two pale faces.
A tailed, narrow-limbed figure leans on a staff before a black circle.
A stretched animal body and an elongated head run diagonally across the page.
Two elaborate faces and a curling body surround a tall candle in the heading for The Study.
A young man with a sword turns towards a woman holding a hanging vessel.
A long patterned creature curves over a smaller bowed figure, crossing the body in a loop.
A young woman appears within a spreading patterned garment, with a curved object to the right and flowing ornaments along the base.
A cloaked figure lies face down beneath an enormous curved blade.
Two richly dressed riders move diagonally through a dark canopy on elongated creatures.
A patterned dark figure reaches towards a tall pale companion holding a staff.
A close human pair stands inside a dark arch beneath an enormous spindly creature.
A narrow human face appears within a tall curling body above the word END.
Small figures and animal-like forms gather around a bright central fire.
A crowd fills an ornate hall around an elevated central space.
Two similarly dressed men stand together within a rounded photographic field.
An immense reclining figure rests among clouds beneath a dense canopy of decorative forms.
Small buildings and a long stair cling to a great rocky pinnacle surrounded by pale mist.
Several haloed figures stand closely together above a bowed armoured man.
An armoured warrior strides forward with a great sword while a broad banner streams above him.
Small painted divinities interrupt lines of gold script upon two long dark manuscript panels.
A tall pale figure is enclosed within dark blue wings whose tips rise above the head.
Two seated men and a standing woman gather around an open book on a broad table.
A dark robed figure sits behind an immense open book beneath a moon and long-winged birds.
Steep roofs and timbered houses crowd a narrow street beneath wooded hills.
A pale bird flies beside the tangled branches of a great tree.
Several travellers follow a narrow ledge beside a pale pack animal.
Broken classical columns rise above a shore crowded with ships and wreckage.
Three small figures move across the lower edge of a nearly black field.
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