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.
6 illustrations
A ring of changing moons surrounds a four-part interior containing small symbolic figures.
Four dark panels contain blue curved forms with red trails, green triangles, blue crosses and a blue ring around a red centre.
A six-pointed arrangement of triangles surrounds a human face, an eagle, a bull and a lion.
Two simplified human forms appear above circular diagrams marked C and D, with dots and rays indicating their internal arrangements.
Two opposed sets of cones are divided by horizontal lines carrying historical dates and bracketed phase numbers.
A pale inverted body fills a narrow dark panel beside rows of signs, small diagrams and letter-like shapes.