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.
5 illustrations
Seven circular emblems are arranged around a cross-shaped field of lettering.
Twenty-four round seals complete the main sequence of seventy-two spirits in the Goetia.
A serpent coils around a tall upright staff with a short transverse arm.
A large pentagram occupies a dark polygonal field, with Elohim near its centre and Heilig repeated at either side.
A seven-by-seven number grid fills the upper field above two small linear devices.