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.
11 illustrations
A gesturing figure faces an assembled company beneath a tumult of airborne bodies and winged forms.
A vast angular face fills the composition around a dark circular eye.
A dark human body hangs among angular bands and wires.
Zigzag planes, cylinders and deep black shapes intersect across the page.
An enormous wide-eyed head peers above a curved dark form.
A man seen from behind extends one arm among angular pale planes.
A pale floating figure reaches towards a dark sphere.
A colossal dark profile rises beside stepped architectural planes.
Pale faces and reaching hands emerge among tall dark folds.
Small robed figures stand along an immense outstretched hand.
Faces, circles and fragmented architectural planes form a dense abstract pattern.
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