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.
5 illustrations
Interlaced triangles and a five-pointed star give two different conceptions of divine order a geometric form.
A pointed violet form edged with yellow rises above a radiant golden sphere in this paired plate.
A man with a thick moustache and high collar faces the viewer within an oval photographic field.
Letters and small circular signs surround a cross within a ruled geometric design.
Lines descend from the Logos through its three aspects towards the Lord of the World, the Buddha, Bodhisattva and Mahachohan.
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