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.
6 illustrations
A thick spotted snake raises its head above a compact stack of coils.
Small globes follow curling lines across concentric circles surrounding a centre labelled Ice.
Concentric circles are labelled from the Sun and Mercury outwards to Neptune and the Milky Way.
A round disk is divided into wedge-shaped sections containing repeated clusters of small circles.
A bare trunk divides into many slender branches with small forked endings.
A large standing figure raises both hands and spreads its legs while smaller circular and skeletal forms trace the limbs.
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