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.
10 illustrations
A crowned Osiris stands among richly dressed courtiers gathered around an open chest.
A pale-robed woman raises one hand as a seated woman holds an infant before a richly patterned court.
Isis bends towards a decorated chest aboard a boat, her dark drapery falling in long folds among oars, ropes and painted fittings.
A young warrior raises a weapon above overlapping soldiers, serpentine forms and fallen bodies.
A tall male figure and a pale-robed woman raise their arms among curling red and dark forms.
A crowned ruler extends one arm towards a young woman who holds her hands near her head.
Three richly dressed women move beneath an ornamental ceiling, their lifted hands and flowing ribbons crossing the shallow interior.
An immense ibis-headed figure raises its arms above a small recumbent man in a shadowed chamber.
A seated solar figure raises one arm while a smaller woman reaches towards him from below.
An armoured archer stretches a bow from a chariot beside a lion, with horses, weapons and crowded figures filling the lower field.
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