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.
16 illustrations
Mounted warriors surge across an open slope with long lances raised.
A man drives a team of horses across a field while another approaches holding a hatchet.
A bright bolt drops from dark cloud into a crowded company of armed men beneath a standing figure.
A robed figure rises through a bright bank of cloud while another leans back below with one arm raised.
An immense winged figure rises above fallen and recoiling soldiers beneath a storm-filled sky.
A kneeling woman raises her arms before a mounted ruler and an assembled company carrying standards and weapons.
An armoured archer stretches a bow from a chariot beside a lion, with horses, weapons and crowded figures filling the lower field.
A crowned charioteer appears above two sphinxes in one design and a pair of horses in the other.
A cloaked rider carries a young woman on a pale horse among underwater rocks and creatures.
Mounted figures move through a pale landscape towards a castle rising among rounded trees.
A woman raises one arm and extends one leg while balancing on a dark horse.
A horse-drawn vehicle passes along a pale road beneath bare trees and a stark gallows.
Several riders gather outside a square stone tower beside a castellated wall.
White horses carry young women through thin trees beneath a bright moon.
A striped creature stretches across the dark scene with a small rider holding tightly to its back.
Several horses remain beside rough military shelters and scattered objects after the human action has ended.
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