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.
8 illustrations
Garuda combines a powerful human-shaped body with a bird’s beak and extravagantly patterned wings.
Kar’s Kali emerges from darkness through the outlines of her arms, her face and the warm accents of ornaments and clothing.
The serpent’s looping body makes a dense setting for Krishna and the figures appealing to him.
A central seed syllable lies within a circular field enclosed by four dark petals.
Six dark petals enclose a circular field containing a large seed syllable and a small aquatic creature.
An inverted triangle and a large central syllable occupy a ring of dark petals.
Two interlocking triangles enclose a dark central region with a small white animal.
A large pale downward-pointing triangle fills the centre of a dark petalled ring.
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