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.
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A celestial carriage descends toward the house where the bamboo-cutter's adopted daughter, Kaguya, waits with her attendants.
Miyuki and Komagawa exchange fans as tokens of their promised love after meeting during a summer boat trip in Kyoto.
Two forms compare mourners whom the authors describe as equally close to the deceased but differently prepared to understand death.
David stands at a palace doorway with one hand raised against his head while seated and kneeling figures gather below him.
Women gather on rocky ground around a reclining companion, with a broad landscape extending beyond them.
A bearded man bends over several motionless younger bodies on the floor of a dark room lit through a barred window.
A bearded seated man is surrounded by younger figures inside a bare chamber lit through a high barred opening.
A seated man and several younger figures huddle in a dim chamber beneath a narrow barred window.
A bright winged figure bends towards a dark, downward-hanging human form amid curling clouds.
A group of men and women mourn on a raised terrace beside great architectural columns.
A young woman holds a slender flute across her body above a dark blue robe patterned with pale flowers.
A dark round head and elongated neck emerge beside the poem above a low patterned landscape.
A woman clings to the branches of a tree while snarling wolves gather below.
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