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.
7 illustrations
An elongated human figure leans against a great tree trunk with one arm stretched along its bark.
A pale haloed figure sits on an immense dark beast with wide staring eyes and an elongated face.
A seated young figure lowers his head beneath a tall stone-framed window with an oval lock.
A tall seated skeleton appears within a narrow cliff-like enclosure above a densely packed mound of pale bodies.
Thin pale figures climb, reach and recline across a sharply divided stairwell.
Two cloaked figures turn away from one another beside a bare tree.
A pale human figure stretches both arms wide beneath a narrow radiant halo.
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