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.
11 illustrations
A celestial carriage descends toward the house where the bamboo-cutter's adopted daughter, Kaguya, waits with her attendants.
Rama sits beneath trees and extends a small ring towards the standing Hanuman.
A cloaked traveller leaves eight standing cups and climbs toward rocky heights beneath a moon.
A foreground figure gathers swords while two other figures turn away across a windswept field.
Three women stand together on open ground, two of them clasping one another while the third bends away.
A luminous standing figure rises above a group of robed followers gathered on a hillside.
A winged visitor and an unclothed man face one another at the edge of a densely wooded garden.
Two figures pause near a slender tree as the last light fades above an open, distant landscape.
A swordsman stands in the foreground below large figures riding elevated, decorated vehicles.
A seated woman reaches towards a young man above a broad rainbow.
A seated woman occupies a leafy pavilion beside a slender stand and a pale animal-like form.
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