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.
7 illustrations
Alfred Smedley turns slightly to one side, his long white beard spreading over a dark jacket.
A seated woman rests one arm beside a small table within an oval photographic frame.
A young woman turns her face back towards the viewer in an oval portrait.
A seated man with a white moustache looks down towards a small object held in his hands.
A wire enclosure containing a chair stands beside a curtained opening.
Rows of chairs fill the lower part of a narrow room plan.
A young man with closely combed hair faces slightly to one side in a rectangular portrait.