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.
6 illustrations
Four great white swans spread their wings above a kneeling figure at an altar.
A pale woman and a long dark form rise together above horizontal bands of water.
Two long-tailed birds face one another within a semicircular field of flowers.
A crowned woman holds a small child above a coiled serpent amid lilies.
A woman embraces a harp-bearing figure while birds fly above them.
Four pale swans fly past a dark cliff above still water.
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