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.
11 illustrations
Griset's winged Baital springs away from Raja Vikram and his son into a night crowded with grotesque creatures.
At the end of the second story, the Baital enrages Vikram by invoking an unwelcome memory after the king delivers a judgement about men and women.
Flame and architecture frame Hanuman’s swift movement through Lanka.
A long-haired woman stands in a boat at the edge of a moonlit lake, reaching towards a man who raises both hands.
Isaac carries a great bundle of firewood above his shoulder as Abraham walks beside him with a staff.
Jesus sits on a low step with children gathered close around his knees as mothers and other adults approach with infants.
A young reclining figure is lifted towards a standing visitor beside a curtained bed, while several companions watch from the adjoining room.
A great fierce head looks over a rectangular frame divided into many small narrative compartments.
Great tree trunks frame a distant blue landscape while small riders pause near the lower edge.
Seated sacred figures occupy framed panels among scrolling roundels and dense stitched borders.
Faces, raised arms and bent bodies fill the frame without a clear division between foreground and background.
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