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.
8 illustrations
A radiant opening occupies the centre of a dark field filled with small clustered forms.
A globe with spread wings appears above a broad winged emblem with a central star-like form.
A chain of overlapping circular whorls fills the upper panel while a larger funnel-like current and a smaller spiral occupy the lower one.
The upper image combines spirals, globes and a long fan of trailing lines.
Small swirling currents fill a narrow upper band above a great curtain of vertical lines.
Small animals range from cattle and birds to larger lion-like and horned forms.
A dark central panel sits inside a web of crossed lines and concentric rings of small symbols.
An immense triangular arrangement of light encloses a dark globe within a dense field of small forms.
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