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
The dark wings cut across a luminous atmosphere, directing the eye towards the world beneath them.
A mass of winged bodies tumbles along a steep diagonal through cloud and darkness.
Two shaven-headed figures turn towards a pale, rising movement of light and cloud.
A simplified front-facing human outline stands within a dashed outer boundary and a closer dotted line.
A young human figure stands in profile between dotted and dashed enclosing lines.
A standing woman is surrounded by two uneven boundaries that widen around the upper body.
A female outline stands within a dashed enclosure while clusters of diagonal lines extend from several parts of the body.
A rear view of a standing figure carries two small shaded patches along one side of the back.
A tiny vessel carries a pale, fluttering sail across a broad blue sea.
Small distorted humanoid figures emerge among a dense field of pale circles.
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