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.
21 illustrations
A haloed mother holds a child above a crowded base of curling creatures.
A long-haired figure bends beside a candle taller than the small people gathered around its stand.
A young man looks outward while a taller pointed-eared companion stands behind him.
Four sharply contrasted bodies join hands across a narrow rectangular field.
Several eyes and faces look outward from a long horizontal creature above the contents.
An elongated reclining body extends a hand towards a small standing figure.
A horned architectural frame encloses two grotesque figures facing one another above the word Preface.
A tall central figure stands between two semicircular fields of radiating lines.
A broad-robed figure spreads its arms above two pale faces.
A tailed, narrow-limbed figure leans on a staff before a black circle.
A stretched animal body and an elongated head run diagonally across the page.
Two elaborate faces and a curling body surround a tall candle in the heading for The Study.
A young man with a sword turns towards a woman holding a hanging vessel.
A long patterned creature curves over a smaller bowed figure, crossing the body in a loop.
A young woman appears within a spreading patterned garment, with a curved object to the right and flowing ornaments along the base.
A cloaked figure lies face down beneath an enormous curved blade.
Two richly dressed riders move diagonally through a dark canopy on elongated creatures.
A patterned dark figure reaches towards a tall pale companion holding a staff.
A close human pair stands inside a dark arch beneath an enormous spindly creature.
A narrow human face appears within a tall curling body above the word END.
A standing woman in a pale dress holds a long object beside another woman seated near a woven screen.
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