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.
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A broad field of stars surrounds smaller views of planetary bodies, including a ringed world and a striped globe.
A very tall figure stands among much smaller people beneath unfamiliar buildings and arches.
A large telescope points out from a circular observatory raised above an extensive city.
A long airborne craft hovers over a circular building with a broad dome.
Great tongues of flame rise around a small cylindrical form near the centre of the scene.
A human visitor stands before an assembled company in a low vaulted chamber.
Pale winged forms spread across the upper sky while a company rises from darker shapes below.
A long bullet-shaped vehicle descends between enormous vertical structures.
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