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.
38 illustrations
A cloaked figure steps into a dark arched doorway with a bright lamp held low at his side.
A seated young woman is surrounded by richly dressed companions in a garden.
An elaborate lamp carries a triangular crown of flames and branching side lights above a decorated base.
A banquet fills a great columned hall while a ruler gestures towards an interruption beyond the gathered guests.
A winged seated figure fills a circular lamp surrounded by small objects, birds and symbolic attributes.
A woman reclines beside a low bed, her dark hair falling towards a sweeping pale crescent form.
A pale woman stands beside a tall decorated bed while richly robed figures gather at the left.
A small pale figure bends beside an immense curved white bed beneath a hanging lamp.
A traveller holds a lamp while following a woman across a dark landscape.
A tall elaborately adorned figure rises above two small attendants beside a great hanging lamp.
Six baboons raise their arms towards a large solar disc, with two kneeling human figures below.
A thin stream of smoke rises from a small lamp and expands into a rounded frame containing a woman’s profile.
Two seated men and a standing woman gather around an open book on a broad table.
An aged, robed figure stands on a rocky summit with a staff in one hand and a radiant lamp raised in the other.
Unorna braces one hand against a table and reaches towards a high specimen with the other.
A princess in a long patterned robe stands beside an immense purple vase.
A seated young man rests his head on one hand beneath a tree with red branches.
A large bird spreads its wings across a tiled room beside an elaborately dressed princess.
A procession of attendants crosses a narrow bridge above dark water and round pale stones.
A small ruler occupies a golden throne at the centre of a vast red chamber.
A group of robed figures gathers beneath a deeply shadowed ornamental arch.
A bearded figure in an elaborate pointed cap turns across a broad gold-coloured field.
A white horse lifts its forelegs while an elaborately dressed rider sits above a patterned saddle.
Long pale ribbons curl around a robed princess in a dark interior.
A richly robed figure stands beside a pale flowering screen overlooking open water.
A pale robed figure stands beneath suspended lamps and elaborate architectural forms.
A crowned young king stands on broad steps before a richly decorated shrine.
A long-tailed creature fills the upper drawing while a robed man and a hanging lamp occupy the lower panel.
A pale-robed woman stands beneath a pointed arch with one arm raised towards a small lamp.
Separate objects range from long stone blades to a tall handled vessel and low circular containers.
Two parallel wires connect a series of lettered electric lamps.
A turbaned old man carries a basket crowded with lamps while children gather and women lean from windows.
Several ornate lamps hang at different heights against a black background.
Two figures dance beneath a bright suspended polygonal lamp against a dark night sky.
A hanging lamp casts a bright cone over figures gathered around a table.
A solitary man descends pale steps beneath a bright circular streetlamp.
A narrow side panel contains an elongated human figure beside a central poem block and low landscape.
A man and a woman stand beside an ornate riverside lamp with London’s clock tower behind them.
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