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.
3 illustrations
Small narrative scenes occupy a great circular field around a central disk.
A great fierce head looks over a rectangular frame divided into many small narrative compartments.
A great circular wheel is divided into densely populated compartments beneath a monster’s head.