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.
8 illustrations
An astonished young man approaches a richly dressed woman standing at a flower-covered doorway.
Seven serpentine heads extend across a garden towards a group of small human figures.
A young warrior raises a weapon above overlapping soldiers, serpentine forms and fallen bodies.
Animal outlines and serpentine forms fill Plate II, accompanied by small human figures and letter-like devices.
A dark-cloaked figure bends towards a smaller body beneath the heading Preludium.
Small oval designs pair engraved figures with inscriptions on their reverse sides.
Several figures stand beside a bending tree in an open park while a woman turns towards the group.
A pale serpentine apparition rises among palm trees above a mass of small dark figures.
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