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.
10 illustrations
A crowd gathers before a large open shrine while dancers move across the foreground.
Separate Egyptian figures are arranged above a reclining mummy visited by a bird-like soul.
A fierce figure grips the rim of a circular diagram divided into scenes.
Mounted figures and falling bodies crowd a landscape beneath angels and a great circular vision.
A human figure is stretched across a large wheel between pale winged beings.
Two registers combine houses, flying figures, demons and domestic encounters.
Dense groups of small bodies fill a dark cavern divided by pale openings and deep ledges.
A bearded divine figure supports an immense circular cosmos filled with small winged forms.
Fierce faces and overlapping bodies crowd a narrow carved relief.
An enormous toothed mouth encloses human figures, weapons and monstrous forms.
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