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.
22 illustrations
Bose crowds the figures together at a dark opening, with lowered bodies and ready bows suggesting vigilance rather than a grand public escape.
Haldar places the young Dhruva against a large field of night, leaving the surrounding space almost empty.
The winged observer stands at the right beneath spreading branches, looking towards the garden below.
A young reclining figure is lifted towards a standing visitor beside a curtained bed, while several companions watch from the adjoining room.
A kneeling youth presses close to an older standing man whose arms extend around him, while a company of travellers and attendants approaches behind.
A woman holding a tall water vessel faces a kneeling elder beside stone steps.
A circular hand-drawn horoscope divides the sky into twelve labelled sectors around a central date and place.
Pine trees cling to rocky slopes around a deep, mist-filled mountain valley.
A seated woman bends over a small infant amid long curved stems and blue flowers.
Four views of old houses are enclosed in separate ornamental frames.
An exterior view of a timber house is placed above a bedroom interior.
A low hut is covered with placards advertising extravagant occult services.
A crowned figure reclines within a dark heated chamber beside a vessel of water.
Small buildings and a long stair cling to a great rocky pinnacle surrounded by pale mist.
A long-haired woman stretches her arms into a starkly divided field of black and white.
Two figures dance close together beneath a round moon hanging among curled branches.
The Infanta’s immense decorated skirt dominates a group of rigidly dressed courtiers.
A large winged figure reaches towards a man waiting in a small wooden boat.
Several figures meet at the steps of a large garden house beneath branching trees.
A multi-storey building with an open central entrance stands behind trees and a street frontage.
Low houses and shaded gardens line a village street with small figures in the foreground.
A lone white figure walks across a low horizon scattered with black oval patches.
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