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.
10 illustrations
A luminous woman rises through a band of cloud above figures with bright star-like signs on their foreheads.
A powerful winged figure rises above clouds with a long scythe held across the body.
Tall stone columns and a damaged entablature rise above a slope of rubble and grass.
People slump against stone walls or lie across the paving of a narrow street.
White water rises against a steep cliff while smaller waves surge between foreground rocks.
A dark ocean extends beneath broken clouds and a low band of light.
A couple holds each other close at the lower edge while a bright comet breaks across a dark sky.
A robed figure stands on broken masonry beside a tall column above an immense expanse of water.
A small dark figure walks between rows of columns under an immense glazed roof.
Two figures sit close together on ruined stone steps while a tall pale apparition stands before them.
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