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.
28 illustrations
Badoura looks toward the harbour while ruling the Ebony Isles under Camaralzaman's identity.
A cloaked elder stands upon a rocky height holding a lantern in one hand and a staff in the other.
The royal company travels through clouds in the great swan-shaped vehicle Pushpaka, beneath an expansive white canopy.
Two standing poets step carefully through a dense company of figures lying face down.
A traveller supports an injured man upon a horse along a rugged road, with the animal’s bent neck and the bearer’s arms joining the two bodies.
A wounded man is carried towards the steps of a building beside his animal, while people at the entrance turn towards the arriving company.
An aged man reclines beneath hanging cloth and reaches towards a kneeling visitor.
Long bands of stepped geometric masonry cover a ruined facade above low openings and encroaching vegetation.
A man extends a bare forearm while an operator holds it near the wrist and elbow.
A robed observer looks skyward through an instrument on a terrace furnished with globes and astronomical apparatus.
Figures walk through flames along a high ledge while winged forms descend beside a deep cliff.
A small child flies through a blue upper field towards a standing woman with open arms.
A seated woman bends over a small infant amid long curved stems and blue flowers.
A moustached man faces forward in a small photographic portrait.
A young woman stands beside a richly dressed man under patterned hangings.
George Peabody sits in a formal dark coat with a small book resting in one hand.
An old man sits inside a small round pavilion beneath a fruit-bearing tree.
A slender visitor in an elaborate ruff stands with a fan and a long cane among fantastic flowers.
Two extravagantly dressed figures carry a great vessel within an ornate garden interior.
A young woman sits beneath a curling ornamental headboard with a small written object before her.
A broad urban plan spreads around waterways, streets and carefully divided districts.
A woman stands among tall orange-red lilies beside broad stone steps.
Long clusters of wistaria flowers hang above still water and a carefully arranged garden.
Rounded flowering shrubs spread across a low garden bank beside a tall stone lantern.
Scarlet leaves rise above a roofed garden entrance beside a stone lantern.
A young woman points towards the distant sea while an older man stands close beside her under autumn-coloured branches.
A vast pale woman takes shape within a towering mass of ice.
A small boy reaches towards the bridle of a large chestnut horse.
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