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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Large pale swans crowd the woodland scene around a woman with flowing hair and clothes.
King Gaiour visits his daughter after she insists that a young man has vanished from her bed.
A man hangs by one foot from a branching wooden support, with the free leg bent across the suspended body.
Two travellers walk beneath dense trees beside a stream, with a fallen trunk crossing the foreground.
A woman stands above a robed traveller on ascending clouds beneath distant ranks of luminous figures.
An inverted man hangs by one leg within an ornate gold and red frame.
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