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.
17 illustrations
A woman in a long pale dress with a dark spotted train stands before patterned curtains.
A great dark-winged figure stands before a luminous opening containing a kneeling woman.
A horned architectural frame encloses two grotesque figures facing one another above the word Preface.
A company sits around a broad table in a columned room, with the central figure lit beneath hanging drapery and attendants gathered at the edges.
A crowned figure sits beneath a canopy in an arcaded room while a smaller attendant stands nearby.
Rows of chairs fill the lower part of a narrow room plan.
A youthful figure turns away from the viewer while drawing a great curtain aside.
A small figure bends below an immense oval enclosure of flowing curtains and masks.
A woman with a dark bob and spotted clothing occupies one side of a tall theatrical bill.
A long pale wave breaks behind a dark coastal rock, throwing narrow curtains of spray towards the heavy sky.
Two seated men and a standing woman gather around an open book on a broad table.
Richly dressed companions gather within a boat-like enclosure hung with embroidered curtains.
A small sleepless woman lies at the top of an immense stack of patterned mattresses under a curtained canopy.
A cloaked figure leans towards a seated sleeping woman beneath heavy curtains and an ornate tall headboard.
A seated woman holds apart two heavy curtains while a pale column rises between her feet.
A nude woman holds a long broom-like staff while an elderly figure attends to her from behind.
A long pale figure stands at the right while a second body leans backwards across broad black drapery.
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