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.
9 illustrations
A standing figure with a radiating crown holds a bundle of narrow rods before the body.
Apollo reaches towards Daphne as leaves and branches extend from her raised hands and her lower body joins a tree-like support.
A standing classical figure extends one arm beside a support covered by drapery.
A winged Saint Michael raises a long weapon while pressing a foot upon a fallen adversary.
A row of six tall columns supports a fragment of carved entablature above a ruined sanctuary.
A seated woman turns her head while holding a large scroll across her lap.
Massive stone uprights stand beneath a surviving horizontal lintel, with smaller fallen stones and grass around their bases.
A great circular stone is filled with concentric rings of carved figures, glyphs and repeated compartments.
Bright, branching prominences rise above a dark curved solar limb.
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