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.
30 illustrations
Two figures lean towards one another within a great dark arch opening onto a deep blue night.
A broad reclining man raises a glass beneath a large outlined title and a small jester’s head.
Lantern-bearers, musicians and a richly decorated elephant fill Dulac's closing marriage procession.
A scalloped outline encloses coloured lines and small floating crescents above a church.
Plate G presents a many-coloured form above a church as the supposed clairvoyant effect of an organ performance of a chorus by Charles Gounod.
Successive peaks of blue, green, red and gold rise above a tiny church.
A seated young woman is surrounded by richly dressed companions in a garden.
Dragon heads and curling bodies form an elaborate frame around a small suspended bell.
A young woman in a tall hat is surrounded by tiny dancing figures, with musicians playing small harps at either side.
Two men face one another at a cottage doorway.
Saul rises beside his throne with a long spear raised towards the young David, who recoils with his harp.
A crowned woman sits upon a large peacock, holding a long musical instrument while an attendant raises a small flag beside her.
A young woman advances with a raised tambourine while companions follow across a rocky hillside.
Two robed observers stand among clouds while winged figures sing and move above and beside them.
A tall pale figure stands within a large crowned glass vessel.
A bare-breasted dancer floats above a dark lower field scattered with curling ornaments.
A singer and a guitarist stand beneath a dense frieze of small figures.
A luminous head rises above a tall column of blue, red and yellow currents.
A radiant starburst tops a vertical sequence of divine names, human faculties, planets and elements ending at the earth.
A sombre face emerges beside a violin whose body follows the lower curve of a curling design.
Two figures stand close together in the shade of dense trees, one lifting a circular instrument above the shoulder.
Small musicians and elongated dancing figures fill an elaborately patterned interior.
A child extends a shallow dish towards a bird perched high on a tree trunk.
A slender musician plays a long flute while balanced on the back of a fish-like vessel.
A small musician looks up towards a vast haloed figure seated among clouds.
Richly dressed musicians gather beside pale water beneath delicate branches and a small yellow moon.
A brilliant long-tailed bird curves above a seated princess in a dark ornamental enclosure.
A small child sits on mushrooms with pipes held to the mouth.
Two dark-haired figures sit together near the foot of a tall pole beneath a wide suspended net.
A dense arrangement of stringed instruments, long horns and smaller sound-making objects occupies an Egyptian-style interior.
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