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.
12 illustrations
Bose places Yama and Nachiketas in a close encounter divided by a dark opening and the strong warmth of the background.
A stretched animal body and an elongated head run diagonally across the page.
A cloaked figure lies face down beneath an enormous curved blade.
The travellers pause above seated and prostrate figures scattered across an uneven expanse of rock.
The travellers stand beside seated figures whose bent arms and hands work against their exposed bodies on the rocky floor.
A kneeling figure faces a standing robed man while a second traveller waits behind them.
A long-robed woman inclines towards a smaller figure beneath a curved willow.
A seated woman bends over a small infant amid long curved stems and blue flowers.
A young woman stands beside a richly dressed man under patterned hangings.
An immense winged creature stands behind a woman and a surprised traveller.
A veiled woman embraces a helmeted man carrying a round shield and long spear.
An elongated figure walks ahead of smaller overlapping human forms.
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