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.
10 illustrations
A woman with her back towards the viewer holds both hands near her face while two men watch in a furnished room.
A woman in a long pale dress with a dark spotted train stands before patterned curtains.
Dark vortices with red interiors fill an oval crossed by sharp scarlet, lightning-like strokes.
Dante and Virgil walk between open stone graves whose lifted lids and emerging bodies interrupt an otherwise bare, shadowed ground.
Four circles carry contrasting central arrangements beneath Jupiter’s planetary sign.
A long-haired woman in white and red stands behind a pale green screen with dark ornamental edges.
A veiled woman stands on the hearthrug facing a startled man beside a table of books.
A dark-suited man looks down at a woman lying back upon a patterned settee.
A man lies on the pavement while a standing figure bends over him beside the open doorway.
A richly robed figure stands beside a pale flowering screen overlooking open water.
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