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
A ring of changing moons surrounds a four-part interior containing small symbolic figures.
Small narrative scenes occupy a great circular field around a central disk.
A great lettered wheel occupies the centre between winged creatures positioned at the corners.
A divided circular wheel combines human and animal forms, small internal emblems and surrounding inscriptions.
A large telescope tube meets an intricate arrangement of wheels, small tubes, handles and metal fittings.
A great fierce head looks over a rectangular frame divided into many small narrative compartments.
A great circular wheel is divided into densely populated compartments beneath a monster’s head.
A great wooden wheel occupies the dark wall beneath a short flight of stairs.
Small figures climb a great angular structure filled with platforms, wheels and hanging buckets.
An armoured man and a pale-robed woman struggle together among sweeping forms and great chariot wheels.
A great wheeled wooden engine dominates a crowded scene of armed men beneath defensive walls.
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