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.
28 illustrations
A pale world map carries modern continental outlines together with larger red boundaries.
The familiar outlines of the continents surround a small coloured island in the Atlantic.
Broad tinted land masses extend across an evenly ruled world map.
Red outlines cross the Pacific and neighbouring regions over a gridded world map.
Streaks of light cut across a dense dark sky above crowded buildings and a turbulent foreground.
A proposed island occupies the central Atlantic between the surrounding continents.
A broad black land mass stretches across the gridded map beside lightly shaded continental outlines.
A pale hatched region labelled Lemuria lies to one side of a large dark continental form.
Hatched ocean regions and dark land masses cross a gridded map with labels for Lemuria and Atlantis.
Rows of four-petalled flowers, crosses, wheels and hooked designs fill a narrow plate.
A circular world map divided by heavy crossing bands shows mountains, rivers and labelled seas.
Seven cobra heads spread above a coiled serpent, each hood carrying small markings.
Figures, signs and circular forms occupy bordered compartments in a tall manuscript reproduction.
Small human figures and dense groups of signs occupy several stacked registers on a manuscript page.
Two elongated carved figures rise above a sloping foreground, their prominent noses, eyes and narrow bodies shown from different angles.
An ornamented figure occupies a densely carved niche surrounded by curling foliage and smaller decorative forms.
A large circular disc forms the centre of a fan-shaped design surrounded by rays, small round ornaments and curling side pieces.
Two decorated vessels occupy the upper row above two simplified human figurines.
A broad white surge towers behind a dense field of ornate buildings.
A decorated warrior carries a round perforated shield while a feathered serpent curls around and above his body.
Mountains rise behind waterways, exposed structures and a crowded foreground of ruins.
An immense black bird spreads its wings over a pale-robed woman beside rough rocks.
A helmeted fighter thrusts a long lance towards the eye of a huge creature beside a ship’s rail.
An armoured man lifts an axe above his head while a fallen fighter lies at his feet.
A striped tiger leaps with jaws open towards a human figure above the arena floor.
A bound human figure flies high above a great throwing engine while a dense crowd watches.
A man and a woman stand close together with weapons raised while a hostile crowd presses towards them.
A veiled woman embraces a helmeted man carrying a round shield and long spear.
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