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.
17 illustrations
Olaf and his father notice a persistent dull-red light ahead of their sloop and first take it for a mock sun or mirage.
At the end of the second story, the Baital enrages Vikram by invoking an unwelcome memory after the king delivers a judgement about men and women.
Red lightning and a narrow, dagger-like shape give anger two different durations in this paired plate.
A long-haired woman stands in a boat at the edge of a moonlit lake, reaching towards a man who raises both hands.
A cloaked figure lies face down beneath an enormous curved blade.
Armed, winged figures raise lashes over an exposed procession, while two cloaked travellers watch from the bank.
A standing woman is surrounded by two uneven boundaries that widen around the upper body.
Animal outlines and serpentine forms fill Plate II, accompanied by small human figures and letter-like devices.
A pale profile appears beneath a richly ornamented helmet with a great curved plume.
A richly adorned figure turns sharply in the foreground before a line of pale-robed women.
Shaded relief, place names and fine boundary lines cover the Korean peninsula between the Yellow Sea and the Sea of Japan.
Pale skull-like forms rise from a dark lake beside a distant castle.
Long curling tentacles surround several dark spheres with brilliant white centres.
A shadowed human face emerges through a dense field of curling shapes and pale circles.
A woman stands amid a cloud of bright circular forms.
Large low-slung creatures overlap in a dark rocky setting.
A young woman crouches among large wolves with their heads close to hers.
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