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
Two small figures hurry across an ornate bridge suspended above a pale landscape.
Overlapping wings and small bodies fill the air, so that the individual figures become the texture of a vast ascent.
The dark wings cut across a luminous atmosphere, directing the eye towards the world beneath them.
An immense eagle carries a cloaked figure through a bright region of cloud.
A rider is caught beneath the branches of a large tree as another armed figure approaches below.
An angel stands beside Peter at a dark doorway above a short flight of stone steps.
A woman holding an infant rides a donkey led by a man with a staff.
Pink and orange letters rise through curling stems and blue sky.
A winged figure flies diagonally through the small printed vignette.
A nest and birds crown an immense rocky pinnacle above a town.
Tiny dark flying forms scatter across a wide landscape beneath clouds and a bright opening near the horizon.
A great wooden wheel occupies the dark wall beneath a short flight of stairs.
A route line runs through a map labelled Siberia, Manchuria, Mongolia and Inner Mongolia.
A man leans forward in alarm as a pack of hounds climbs around a laden dining table.
Visitors pass through a pillared entrance and along a broad flight of shaded steps.
A young woman in a patterned gown turns with both hands raised near her head.
A horse-like creature with great feathered wings flies in profile with a small mounted figure.
A low rectangular structure with decorated side panels rises behind a central flight of steps.
Two riders soar upon a great dark horse with immense pale wings.
Several early aircraft cross a clouded sky above a tightly packed group of people.
Four pale swans fly past a dark cliff above still water.
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