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.
31 illustrations
A celestial carriage descends toward the house where the bamboo-cutter's adopted daughter, Kaguya, waits with her attendants.
Evelyn Paul shows Yorimasa drawing his bow toward the roof of the imperial palace during a violent night storm.
Storm-driven water and ghostly warriors surround the boat carrying Yoshitsune and his companion Benkei.
Raiko encounters a weeping woman beside a mountain stream on the way to the Goblin King's stronghold.
Paul depicts the violent culmination of Raiko's expedition against Shutendoji, the Goblin King of Mount Oye.
Hidesato aims at the enormous centipede threatening the Dragon King's family beneath Lake Biwa.
Miyuki and Komagawa exchange fans as tokens of their promised love after meeting during a summer boat trip in Kyoto.
Uzume dances before the cave where Ama-terasu has hidden, drawing laughter from the gathered gods.
Susa-no-o stands beside Kushi-nada-hime, the maiden threatened by an eight-headed serpent.
Hoori meets the sea god's daughter in a realm beneath the water.
An orange-robed figure stands above a dragon coiling through mountain clouds.
A haloed figure in orange, blue and green robes stands above small surrounding figures among clouds and rocky slopes.
A pale-robed woman floats above a field of mountain clouds, her long ribbons curling outward through the sky.
Two richly dressed women sit beside a brook absorbed in a game of go, while a misty figure watches from the background.
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.
An immense dark figure with bright eyes and a glowing torso rises above a crowded ceremonial platform.
A white-robed figure spreads his arms before a seated ruler.
A young man holds a bloodied dagger beside a bent figure and a dark curtain.
A radiant crowned warrior faces an immense dark monster.
A crowned woman raises her arms above a long orange garment.
A brilliant winged figure rises above a crowded fortified gateway.
A young man clasps his hands beside an altar engulfed in flames.
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