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.
16 illustrations
A flowering stem occupies a diamond inside a square, with letters and small emblems in the surrounding compartments.
A hooded old woman leans on a stick beside a queen in a light gown.
A pelican bends towards its young beneath a radiant cross bearing a rose.
A serpent coils among flowering plants while faint winged figures fly above a valley.
Small figures travel and work across a broad landscape of hills, fields and river banks.
A long diagonal bridge crosses a pale lake above three drawings of strange flowering plants.
A low fan of long leaves supports many branching stems of buds and small flowers.
A heavy rounded flowerhead bends above serrated leaves and several smaller buds.
Small open flowers spread along a tall branching stem above a radial base of leaves.
A cloaked figure leans towards a seated sleeping woman beneath heavy curtains and an ornate tall headboard.
A small strawberry plant displays broad leaves, pale flowers and hanging fruit above its container.
A long lily stem carries many large pale flowers above a slender exposed root.
A woman in a long patterned dress stands beside an immense flowering lily.
A small timbered mill and its wheel stand among rocks and flowering plants beside a narrow watercourse.
Large orchid-like forms drift above a woman in an ornate long gown.
Large pale blossoms rise above a horizontal railing and flowing bands of water.
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