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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Garuda combines a powerful human-shaped body with a bird’s beak and extravagantly patterned wings.
A solitary student and the image before him give Bose’s Ekalavya a severe, inward atmosphere.
Bose arranges the martial display as a meeting of performers and watchers.
Bose crowds the figures together at a dark opening, with lowered bodies and ready bows suggesting vigilance rather than a grand public escape.
The kneeling archer meets a divine couple in a landscape pared down to curving ground, pale rock and sparse flowering branches.
Bose places Yama and Nachiketas in a close encounter divided by a dark opening and the strong warmth of the background.
A seated figure with a soft halo holds one hand near his chest while the other rests low beside his folded legs.
A woman's face and shoulders emerge among low rocks beside a small cascade and a solitary tree.
A seated Shiva lifts a small dark vessel to his mouth while his other hand rests across his folded legs.
A many-armed crowned deity sits within a halo of flame upon a ram.
A crowned male figure stands beside a long-haired woman at the edge of a pale landscape.
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