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.
14 illustrations
The raised hands, streaming beard and bent legs of the white-haired figure are crossed by dark horizontal bands.
Successive peaks of blue, green, red and gold rise above a tiny church.
A narrow orange zigzag struggles for prominence between broad wavering grey bands in this compact horizontal plate.
Two contrasting forms accompany the authors' account of gamblers at Monte Carlo.
Diffuse red occupies much of an uneven oval above green and dark lower bands, with a smaller yellow area near the top.
Bright crimson vortices stand out against an oval crossed by repeated rose-coloured bands.
Blue circular coils and horizontal bands spread across an oval of mixed yellow, green and red.
Repeated grey zigzags cross a tall oval of subdued blue, yellow, pink and green.
Heavy curved grey bands veil an oval of yellow, blue, red and muted green.
A brilliant centre is enclosed by bands of yellow, rose, blue, green and pale violet.
A seated Buddha appears within great concentric bands of light above a broad valley filled with assembled figures.
A dark horse carries an elaborately dressed rider beneath diagonal bands of light.
A profile head is enclosed by a radiating oval field with labelled bands and body regions.
Rows of polished stones display pale star effects, bright central bands and mottled flashes of colour.
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