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.
8 illustrations
A man sits in a wooden chair beside a smoking vessel, looking upward into a field of pale, drifting forms.
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 pale woman stands among three white polar bears beneath a dark starry sky.
A young man lies on a purple carpet beside a seated woman in gold, blue and violet garments.
A pale bird perches beside a sleeping youth on a rocky ledge beneath a star-filled sky.
Bright transparent spheres drift upwards between great dark rock faces.
A young woman plays a violin before a broad mottled tree, surrounded by small blue flowers.
A crowned king in orange and a dark patterned cloak sits on a white stepped terrace.
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