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.
11 illustrations
A mounted knight bends towards a woman at a castle entrance while armed companions wait nearby.
A woman rests a jar upon a low garden wall above a broad view of Jerusalem.
Three views of men in pale cloaks with broad dark stripes fill a plain background.
A round well with a curved lifting frame occupies the foreground beside tall cypresses.
A pointed Gothic doorway stands within pale stone walls below a warm bare hillside.
Small groups gather beneath the weathered stone façade and its ornate arched windows.
A small red architectural shrine stands among immense columns and curving galleries.
The richly patterned octagonal Dome of the Rock rises above an open stone platform.
A shaded fountain and terrace fill the foreground beneath leafy vines.
Slender cypresses rise beside pale garden walls while gnarled olive branches spread across the foreground.
A woman in a long dark dress balances a broad basket of pale vessels on her head.
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