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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Urizen sits with knees drawn up and heavy fetters around his ankles, while red and gold rays surround his closed eyes.
Seven circular emblems are arranged around a cross-shaped field of lettering.
Seven circular emblems surround a central field of Greek and Hebrew lettering.
A radiant opening occupies the centre of a dark field filled with small clustered forms.
A large circular disc forms the centre of a fan-shaped design surrounded by rays, small round ornaments and curling side pieces.
A skull with radiating ornament lies between two hourglasses above the epilogue verse.
Outstretched human forms converge around a great dark circle within a field of radiating lines.
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