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.
17 illustrations
Three figures raise cups together among flowers and fruit beneath the numeral III.
Children reach towards the fruit of a branching tree above a broad stylised plant with an enclosed central figure.
A large concentric pentacle headed for Saturn and Saturday fills the upper portion of a handwritten page.
Bird-bodied creatures with human faces perch among twisted trunks and tangled branches, surrounding two small travellers on the ground below.
A young woman sits amid overflowing baskets and plates of fruit while animal-faced sellers crowd around her.
An old man sits inside a small round pavilion beneath a fruit-bearing tree.
A crowned female figure stands with a long inscribed scroll in each hand.
Red, white and black birds gather beneath a fruiting tree.
Two extravagantly dressed figures carry a great vessel within an ornate garden interior.
Two elongated figures hold baskets and flowering forms above a small heap of fruit.
Tiny winged figures stand and peer between large dark berries and densely veined leaves.
A bridge cuts across a stylised landscape above three separate botanical-looking designs.
A small strawberry plant displays broad leaves, pale flowers and hanging fruit above its container.
A pale woman stands with arms extended beneath a tree laden with golden fruit.
A woman in a loose pale blouse sits behind a mass of fruit and vegetables beside an old doorway.
Two young figures stand among fruit trees and scattered leaves.
A cut orange reveals bright segments, pale membranes and small seeds.
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