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.
6 illustrations
A man with a small moustache faces outward within a dark oval.
Two elongated figures mirror one another beneath the author’s name.
People and pack animals gather beside a high stone wall and the dark entrance of Jerusalem’s Jaffa Gate.
A winged, bearded figure with raised weapons confronts a lion-headed winged creature.
Three approaching figures face a large solar disc set upon an altar before a seated deity beneath an arched shrine.
Two rectangular extracts of dense script occupy the upper and middle portions of a comparative page.