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.
7 illustrations
Interlaced triangles and a five-pointed star give two different conceptions of divine order a geometric form.
Horizontal divisions cross a circle filled with planetary and zodiac signs.
A series of nested triangles rises within a dotted circle.
Seven planetary signs sit at the ends of three curved branches and a central upright stem.
A circular wheel divides twelve houses between concentric bands of positive and negative signs.
Weather labels divide a circular wheel between midday and midnight.
A circular cosmic image fills the upper half of a densely ornamented page above two columns of text.
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