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.
21 illustrations
Nine circular designs combine geometric figures, lettering and monograms.
A crowned king holds a sceptre and pentacle on a bull-decorated throne amid vines and distant buildings.
A crowned queen looks down at a pentacle held in her lap beneath a leafy arch, with a rabbit beside the throne.
An armoured knight displays a pentacle while seated on a dark horse before a low open landscape.
A youthful figure raises a pentacle in both hands above a flowered field with distant trees and mountains.
Ten pentacles overlay a scene of an older seated figure, two dogs, a child and adults beneath an archway.
A robed woman holds a bird on one wrist amid grapevines, nine pentacles and a distant house.
A seated craft worker uses a hammer on a pentacle while six finished emblems hang vertically and another lies below.
A standing figure leans on a staff and looks toward seven pentacles arranged beside and below a clump of greenery.
A standing figure holds scales and distributes coins to two kneeling figures beneath six pentacles.
Two figures walk through falling snow beneath a lighted window containing five pentacles.
A crowned seated figure clasps a pentacle, with another above the crown and two beneath the feet before a city.
A craft worker stands on a bench beneath a vaulted arch while two other figures look upward toward the work.
A dancing figure holds two pentacles joined by a looping cord while ships rise and fall on waves behind.
A hand emerges from a cloud holding a large pentacle above a garden path leading through a leafy arch.
Four circular designs are marked with Saturn’s planetary sign.
Four circles carry contrasting central arrangements beneath Jupiter’s planetary sign.
Four round designs are marked with the sign of Mars.
A large bearded face occupies one of four circles marked with the sign of the Sun.
Four circular figures carry the planetary sign of Venus above bands of Hebrew lettering.
Six circular seals contain inscriptions and small symbolic marks.
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