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.
19 illustrations
A great dark-winged figure stands before a luminous opening containing a kneeling woman.
A small upright human figure appears within a tall, pale oval touched with yellow, pink and grey.
Diffuse red occupies much of an uneven oval above green and dark lower bands, with a smaller yellow area near the top.
Bright crimson vortices stand out against an oval crossed by repeated rose-coloured bands.
Blue circular coils and horizontal bands spread across an oval of mixed yellow, green and red.
Dark vortices with red interiors fill an oval crossed by sharp scarlet, lightning-like strokes.
Repeated grey zigzags cross a tall oval of subdued blue, yellow, pink and green.
Heavy curved grey bands veil an oval of yellow, blue, red and muted green.
An oval of pink, gold, pale blue and green is surrounded by a brilliant field and outward-projecting rays.
A faint upright person stands within an oval of blue, red, green and pale gold.
A brilliant centre is enclosed by bands of yellow, rose, blue, green and pale violet.
A woman with elaborately arranged hair wears a high-necked patterned dress and a dark necklace.
An elderly man and a woman sit together at a cloth-covered table with papers before them.
A balding man with a full beard wears a dark jacket and small bow tie in a line-drawn portrait.
A pale-robed woman stands above dark troubled waters while cherubs gather around her head.
A cutaway profile of the human head and neck locates small internal structures with fine pointer lines.
The outline of a human trunk encloses paired kidneys, small adrenal glands and portions of the skeleton.
A cutaway human torso reveals the liver, stomach, intestines and reproductive organs.
A young woman leans backwards while a man supports her and another peers through a doorway.
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