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 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.
Dragon heads and curling bodies form an elaborate frame around a small suspended bell.
Two robed observers stand among clouds while winged figures sing and move above and beside them.
A brilliant long-tailed bird curves above a seated princess in a dark ornamental enclosure.
Two dark-haired figures sit together near the foot of a tall pole beneath a wide suspended net.
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