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
Nine circular designs combine geometric figures, lettering and monograms.
Twenty-seven numbered signs move from lines and letter-like forms to fire, water, animals and bodily emblems.
Interlaced triangles and a five-pointed star give two different conceptions of divine order a geometric form.
Four dark panels contain blue curved forms with red trails, green triangles, blue crosses and a blue ring around a red centre.
A seated practitioner faces a small table bearing a crystal within a circular diagram.
A large hexagram encloses the name Michael beneath a Hebrew inscription.
A large lettered pentacle occupies the upper half of a manuscript page headed for Mars and Tuesday.
A cross with expanded arms occupies an irregular stone fragment, surrounded by small linear and dotted marks.
Red, blue, green and gold polygons repeat across a horizontal band above a broad purple field.
Two figures dance beneath a bright suspended polygonal lamp against a dark night sky.
An orange square sits within a green field enclosed by purple.
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