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.
20 illustrations
The name Rizzio dominates a framed design with French phrases and thistle-like corner ornaments.
An immense reclining figure rests among clouds beneath a dense canopy of decorative forms.
A pale female figure appears beside a reclining youth within a small dark vignette.
Several haloed figures stand closely together above a bowed armoured man.
An Egyptian-inspired figure extends both arms beneath the title, while long curling forms connect the body to a small smoking vessel.
A thin stream of smoke rises from a small lamp and expands into a rounded frame containing a woman’s profile.
A man sits in a wooden chair beside a smoking vessel, looking upward into a field of pale, drifting forms.
Two upright mummy-like forms flank a short passage of verse beneath a radiant, winged head.
A seated, reclining man occupies the lower left of a verse border, facing a vessel whose smoke rises into a crowded field of small faces.
A dense line of armoured horsemen advances towards the viewer beneath raised standards.
A skull with radiating ornament lies between two hourglasses above the epilogue verse.
A long-masted ship moves through a river-like band of stars and clouds.
A dark-haired figure sits with head lowered and legs extended while other bodies and faces emerge around it.
A pale woman stands among three white polar bears beneath a dark starry sky.
A young man lies on a purple carpet beside a seated woman in gold, blue and violet garments.
A pale bird perches beside a sleeping youth on a rocky ledge beneath a star-filled sky.
Bright transparent spheres drift upwards between great dark rock faces.
A young woman plays a violin before a broad mottled tree, surrounded by small blue flowers.
A crowned king in orange and a dark patterned cloak sits on a white stepped terrace.
A fantastic creature combines an elephant-like trunk with a shaggy body and clawed limbs.
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