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.
12 illustrations
Small narrative scenes occupy a great circular field around a central disk.
A six-pointed arrangement of triangles surrounds a human face, an eagle, a bull and a lion.
Two circular charts carry numbered traces and legends explaining the start and stop of a registering needle.
Two simplified human forms appear above circular diagrams marked C and D, with dots and rays indicating their internal arrangements.
A long wand, candles, a circular band and an inscribed disc share a framed page of annotated implements.
A large concentric pentacle bears Alpha et Omega at its centre beneath a heading naming the Sun and Sunday.
A large lettered pentacle occupies the upper half of a manuscript page headed for Mars and Tuesday.
The upper diagram overlaps three vertical circles while the lower places a dark sphere within several larger circular fields.
A standing nude occupies one small framed panel beside a circular diagram filled with divisions and signs.
A great circular wheel is divided into densely populated compartments beneath a monster’s head.
Bands of letters, crosses and numerals surround a narrow central table of numbers.
Two large semicircular diagrams face opposite directions around a vertical centre line.
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