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.
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Figure 38 represents, in Besant and Leadbeater's account, a meditator's wish to embrace all humanity and draw it toward a higher ideal.
King Gaiour visits his daughter after she insists that a young man has vanished from her bed.
A narrow orange zigzag struggles for prominence between broad wavering grey bands in this compact horizontal plate.
Art appreciation and reunion appear together on this paired plate, although their figure numbers run in reverse order.
A standing male figure raises one arm within a pointed starburst while the other arm extends outward.
A long-bearded man in a dark suit turns slightly towards the viewer in a printed photographic portrait.
Blue circular coils and horizontal bands spread across an oval of mixed yellow, green and red.
A traveller holds a lamp while following a woman across a dark landscape.
A youthful figure stretches or steps beside a tall old man holding a staff.
Unorna braces one hand against a table and reaches towards a high specimen with the other.
A nude seated figure twists before two pale pyramids beneath a blue sky.
A small boat crosses the foreground below a hill crowned by an elaborate palace.
A seated woman looks towards a pale oval containing the head of a bearded man.
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