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.
11 illustrations
A yellow cloud and a green cloud appear in separate dark panels.
A curling orange form fills the upper panel while a jagged red-orange burst occupies the lower one.
Two contrasting shapes give jealousy a watchful and an angry form in Besant and Leadbeater's visual vocabulary.
A diagonal succession of grey crescents turns a moment of fright into a sequence rather than a single emblem.
A narrow orange zigzag struggles for prominence between broad wavering grey bands in this compact horizontal plate.
Two contrasting forms accompany the authors' account of gamblers at Monte Carlo.
A sword-bearing angel stands in a break of dazzling light while two human figures bend away beneath the trees.
A woman sits against a massive rock while a child lies stretched upon the open ground.
Blue circular coils and horizontal bands spread across an oval of mixed yellow, green and red.
Repeated grey zigzags cross a tall oval of subdued blue, yellow, pink and green.
A faint upright person stands within an oval of blue, red, green and pale gold.
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