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.
5 illustrations
Four long-robed figures gather around an open stone coffin while a winged human form ascends above it.
A crowd gathers outside a building around a coffin on a bier.
Two kneeling figures face one another with long wings spread across the field and one arm raised.
A dark coffin-like form rises behind a circular wreath between groups of mourners.
A line of many-legged creatures carries a long pointed coffin across a black field.