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.
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The raised hands, streaming beard and bent legs of the white-haired figure are crossed by dark horizontal bands.
A pointed violet form edged with yellow rises above a radiant golden sphere in this paired plate.
A figure’s green robes stream across the upper half of this illuminated prelude, reaching towards a smaller horizontal body.
Several figures cluster among thick, curling coloured forms at the top of the page.
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