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.
25 illustrations
The winged observer stands at the right beneath spreading branches, looking towards the garden below.
Several bodies rise or turn within a narrow curling fire, with a robed traveller standing nearby in the dark rocky setting.
A long line of robed figures passes beside dark trees and low water, their bodies lit against the shadowed wood.
A seated man and several younger figures huddle in a dim chamber beneath a narrow barred window.
Two travellers walk beneath dense trees beside a stream, with a fallen trunk crossing the foreground.
An elderly cross-legged figure sits in a woodland clearing with a narrow support or shadow beneath the body.
A long dark ridge projects into a broad field of shadow.
A vast black horse and rider rise above a line of small islands.
Thin angular figures appear suspended above overlapping dark shadows.
A small fisherman stands with a knife beside an immense upright shadow.
A dark horned figure stands behind a pale goat and a heap of angular bones.
A couple holds each other close at the lower edge while a bright comet breaks across a dark sky.
A pale-gowned woman sits alone in an ornate chair beside dark rock formations.
A thick gnarled tree spreads irregular branches across a pale clearing.
A woman with tightly curled hair wears a high-necked pale dress and looks slightly to one side.
A steamer and a sailing vessel approach one another across a lightly drawn sea.
A young woman with long waved hair turns slightly within a softly shaded pencil portrait.
A pale veiled figure stands beside a seated woman who covers her face with both hands.
Several fern fronds lie separately against a plain pale background.
Tall stems with large pointed leaves fill the narrow photographic field.
A small strawberry plant displays broad leaves, pale flowers and hanging fruit above its container.
A standing figure is wrapped in pale fabric with one arm lifted sharply upwards.
A long lily stem carries many large pale flowers above a slender exposed root.
A woman in a long patterned dress stands beside an immense flowering lily.
A pale winding band disappears between broad dark cloud-like forms.
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