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.
4 illustrations
A standing figure and rows of carved signs survive across a damaged stone slab.
A mounted heavenly figure and sweeping attendants descend among bodies recoiling on the steps of an immense temple.
A large spiral occupies the crossing of a carved stone cross, with knotted bands filling its shaft and arms.
A cross with expanded arms occupies an irregular stone fragment, surrounded by small linear and dotted marks.