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.
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An Egyptian-inspired figure extends both arms beneath the title, while long curling forms connect the body to a small smoking vessel.
A thin stream of smoke rises from a small lamp and expands into a rounded frame containing a woman’s profile.
A man sits in a wooden chair beside a smoking vessel, looking upward into a field of pale, drifting forms.
Two upright mummy-like forms flank a short passage of verse beneath a radiant, winged head.
A seated, reclining man occupies the lower left of a verse border, facing a vessel whose smoke rises into a crowded field of small faces.
A dense line of armoured horsemen advances towards the viewer beneath raised standards.
A skull with radiating ornament lies between two hourglasses above the epilogue verse.
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