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.
35 illustrations
A haloed mother holds a child above a crowded base of curling creatures.
A long-haired figure bends beside a candle taller than the small people gathered around its stand.
A young man looks outward while a taller pointed-eared companion stands behind him.
Four sharply contrasted bodies join hands across a narrow rectangular field.
Several eyes and faces look outward from a long horizontal creature above the contents.
An elongated reclining body extends a hand towards a small standing figure.
A horned architectural frame encloses two grotesque figures facing one another above the word Preface.
A tall central figure stands between two semicircular fields of radiating lines.
A broad-robed figure spreads its arms above two pale faces.
A tailed, narrow-limbed figure leans on a staff before a black circle.
A stretched animal body and an elongated head run diagonally across the page.
Two elaborate faces and a curling body surround a tall candle in the heading for The Study.
A young man with a sword turns towards a woman holding a hanging vessel.
A long patterned creature curves over a smaller bowed figure, crossing the body in a loop.
A young woman appears within a spreading patterned garment, with a curved object to the right and flowing ornaments along the base.
A cloaked figure lies face down beneath an enormous curved blade.
Two richly dressed riders move diagonally through a dark canopy on elongated creatures.
A patterned dark figure reaches towards a tall pale companion holding a staff.
A close human pair stands inside a dark arch beneath an enormous spindly creature.
A narrow human face appears within a tall curling body above the word END.
A young woman stands on a dark rise holding a long loop of beads.
Dark branches frame a layered valley of steep mountains, low cloud and winding water.
A darkly dressed man sits beneath a suspended vision of a pale woman held by another male figure.
An elongated pale face appears among flowers, small figures and intricate ornamental forms.
An elaborately dressed woman stands on a landing above two curved gondola prows.
Grotesque diners sit around a table that seems to float above a dark field of winding lines.
Concentric streams of fine marks spiral towards a black centre.
A long-haired woman stretches her arms into a starkly divided field of black and white.
Two richly patterned figures turn in opposite directions within a garden of immense flowers.
A tall, bandaged figure stands in a dark doorway beside a great clock.
An immense wall of closely drawn trees rises above a small illuminated opening near the bottom of the image.
A small musician looks up towards a vast haloed figure seated among clouds.
A black sailing ship leans above a dark sea while fine rays rise through an almost empty sky.
Richly dressed musicians gather beside pale water beneath delicate branches and a small yellow moon.
A pale profile appears beneath a richly ornamented helmet with a great curved plume.
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