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.
6 illustrations
Several men examine papers or objects around a small table while another figure crouches beneath it.
Three upright columns contain coils, loops and small grouped forms above rows labelled gas, liquid and solid.
A small curved embryonic form is shown beside a large rounded sac within an enclosing outline.
A compact curved form with prominent head and segmented trunk lies within surrounding membranes beside a rounded sac.
A European visitor holds a small sphere before a group of Indigenous figures in a wooded shelter.
Three figures gather around a box-like instrument on a tall tripod in a mountain landscape.
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