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.
14 illustrations
An immense eagle spreads its wings above a mountainous landscape and distant towers.
An immense eagle carries a cloaked figure through a bright region of cloud.
A six-pointed arrangement of triangles surrounds a human face, an eagle, a bull and a lion.
Two hanging standards sit beneath peaked supports, one displaying an eagle and the other a cross.
A vast winged shape emerges from countless luminous bodies above two small standing observers upon clouds.
A spread-eagled figure is fixed to the ground while the two travellers and heavily clothed inhabitants stand around him.
Two robed figures sit at a rocky cliff while a pale crescent hangs above the distant sea.
A dark kneeling traveller looks toward winged figures in the clouds beside a standing woman.
Two robed observers stand among clouds while winged figures sing and move above and beside them.
Two crowned women occupy parallel throne designs, each accompanied by an eagle shield and a long sceptre.
A nest and birds crown an immense rocky pinnacle above a town.
A crowned bearded figure stands with both arms extended and an eagle balanced on each hand.
An eagle-headed winged figure wears a patterned robe, carries a small vessel and raises a rounded object in its other hand.
A great eagle lifts a flowing-robed woman above the watching figures below.
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