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.
7 illustrations
A richly dressed dancer raises her arms before a crowd in an ornate courtyard.
Named figures gather beneath an architectural canopy above a block of Italian text.
Two framed scenes place the storytellers first in procession and then seated around a garden fountain.
An older seated man receives a robed visitor beneath an arcaded courtyard.
A richly dressed woman sits beside a crowned or elaborately capped guest at a laden table.
Fashionably dressed women gather on steps beside a crowded waterfront.
A young man sits on a low bench beneath a small window.
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