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.
33 illustrations
Edward Kelley and a companion stand inside a ritual circle while a shrouded figure appears in a moonlit churchyard.
A scalloped outline encloses coloured lines and small floating crescents above a church.
Plate G presents a many-coloured form above a church as the supposed clairvoyant effect of an organ performance of a chorus by Charles Gounod.
Successive peaks of blue, green, red and gold rise above a tiny church.
A framed African map marks regions and routes within the continent.
Three small figures have elongated heads and broad lower bodies, with animal-like markings across their surfaces.
Two curved bands organise small face-like signs inside a broad circle.
A frontal child stands upon two crocodiles and grasps long serpents and smaller animals.
A richly dressed, long-bearded figure holds a lion against his torso and carries a curved implement in the other hand.
Broad wing-like shapes surround a compact arrangement of faces, limbs and patterned elements.
A slender standing figure raises one arm beside a tall cylindrical, plume-like headdress, while the other hand rests across the body.
A fish-clad standing figure appears beside an oval enclosing a smaller upright form.
A man stands inside an inscribed circle among graves while a pale shrouded figure rises nearby.
A bride with a long trailing veil advances beneath a great carved church entrance.
An elongated central shape lies within intersecting outlined compartments.
Seven cobra heads spread above a coiled serpent, each hood carrying small markings.
Two crowded church scenes contrast confession under angelic and demonic influences.
Figures, signs and circular forms occupy bordered compartments in a tall manuscript reproduction.
Small human figures and dense groups of signs occupy several stacked registers on a manuscript page.
Two elongated carved figures rise above a sloping foreground, their prominent noses, eyes and narrow bodies shown from different angles.
An ornamented figure occupies a densely carved niche surrounded by curling foliage and smaller decorative forms.
A large circular disc forms the centre of a fan-shaped design surrounded by rays, small round ornaments and curling side pieces.
Two decorated vessels occupy the upper row above two simplified human figurines.
A broad white surge towers behind a dense field of ornate buildings.
A decorated warrior carries a round perforated shield while a feathered serpent curls around and above his body.
Mountains rise behind waterways, exposed structures and a crowded foreground of ruins.
Several bald figures bend over large open books while a horned being occupies the centre behind them.
A horned figure bows a large stringed instrument at the front of a richly decorated church.
An ornate church rises beneath several dark domes above a low balustrade.
Small groups gather beneath the weathered stone façade and its ornate arched windows.
A shaded fountain and terrace fill the foreground beneath leafy vines.
A single bent figure moves along a broad curved bridge above low buildings.
A small child lies upon the floor of a dark columned church.
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