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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Working in an elderly gardener's plot, Camaralzaman sees one bird kill another and watches other birds bury the victim and punish its attacker.
A boat from an enormous ship brings six sailors to Olaf Jansen's becalmed sloop near a forested riverbank.
The visitor appears as a bright figure beyond the shaded foreground, while the human pair turn towards the approaching shape.
A spotted cat crouches between rocks while Dante draws back on the higher ground; a distant landscape opens beyond the obstruction.
Three bow-bearing centaurs turn toward the descending poets beside a river occupied by half-submerged figures, with a dark rocky height behind them.
A woman bends forward beside a group of children in a domestic interior.
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