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.
39 illustrations
An immense reclining figure rests among clouds beneath a dense canopy of decorative forms.
Small buildings and a long stair cling to a great rocky pinnacle surrounded by pale mist.
Several haloed figures stand closely together above a bowed armoured man.
An armoured warrior strides forward with a great sword while a broad banner streams above him.
A tall cloaked figure occupies a great architectural opening above a compact crowd.
A small upright figure confronts a sky filled with great curling cloud forms.
A hooded figure appears beside an immense face emerging from a dark, rocky setting.
A great dark structure rises above a steep approach where small figures gather below.
A great boar-like beast charges through a dark landscape beneath an immense arcing form.
Pale floating figures appear among bright circular and cloud-like forms.
A white-cloaked figure stands before an immense carved seat or monument.
Columns frame a raised tomb beneath a dark, star-filled sky.
A robed figure holds an instrument within a landscape of suspended forms and distant lights.
Small musicians and elongated dancing figures fill an elaborately patterned interior.
A fantastically dressed rider speeds across a rocky foreground beneath a towering pale mountain.
A tall robed figure sits on a pale mount beneath a canopy of trees.
Dark figures stand or crouch beside a steep bank while great shafts of light break through the clouds.
A sailing ship leans across choppy water beneath immense overlapping sails.
A small ship pitches through dark water below cliffs that rise almost beyond the frame.
An immense elaborately dressed figure rises above a crowded city of towers and roofs.
Two low thatched cottages stand beneath heavy clouds.
A thin column of water rises high above a broad circular basin.
A long-haired figure sits within a radiant circular halo above flowers and breaking waves.
A pale owl-like form rises from the undergrowth before a dense wall of dark tree trunks.
A tall cloaked figure rises through a triangular shadow with one arm extended.
A great robed figure stands above a sparse rocky landscape within a field of misty light.
A dark robed figure sits behind an immense open book beneath a moon and long-winged birds.
A long-masted ship moves through a river-like band of stars and clouds.
Steep roofs and timbered houses crowd a narrow street beneath wooded hills.
A pale bird flies beside the tangled branches of a great tree.
Several travellers follow a narrow ledge beside a pale pack animal.
Broken classical columns rise above a shore crowded with ships and wreckage.
Three small figures move across the lower edge of a nearly black field.
A bowed ruler sits on a richly decorated throne within a palace crowded with towers and hanging forms.
A pale robed figure stands beneath suspended lamps and elaborate architectural forms.
A dark human figure hangs in chains high above the ground.
A pale youth turns within the broad star-covered robe of a much larger crowned figure.
A dense mass of round towers and battlements rises from a dark foreground.
A small radiant flower-like form glows beside a dark valley beneath an extravagant field of stars.
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