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.
23 illustrations
An astonished young man approaches a richly dressed woman standing at a flower-covered doorway.
A great dark-winged figure stands before a luminous opening containing a kneeling woman.
An armoured, crowned figure holds a sceptre beneath a star-covered canopy.
A large robed figure raises one hand while holding a long staff in the other.
A young companion stands beside a tall, robed elder with a large pale disc behind them.
A horned stone figure leans over a parapet with its chin held between its hands.
A standing figure holds a branching form above a narrow platform, with a bird, vessels and other small objects below.
A crowned figure rides a fantastic bird-headed creature surrounded by coiling serpents.
Several figures gather around a tilted, inscribed circle in a wooded landscape.
A pale, upright figure stands within a circle before two men in a moonlit burial ground.
A seated, turbaned astronomer lifts a telescope towards a starry sky.
A standing man raises a whip over a kneeling man among palms and tall reeds.
Baskets line a shelf inside a broad stone arch, while a horned head and skeleton lie beneath a bright oval opening.
Flames and curling smoke rise among a densely packed city’s towers and roofs.
Attendants gather around a great royal bed beneath a canopy topped by a crown.
A veiled female apparition stands beside a frightened man who has raised himself in a curtained bed.
A standing witch-finder appears between two seated women while named animal familiars occupy the foreground.
An open hand displays a small ball retained near the base of the fingers.
Two hands hold a large ball in front of a top hat.
A small patterned bag hangs from a narrow ribbon handle.
A bearded man holds a wand inside an inscribed circle surrounded by books, vessels and astronomical instruments.
A standing woman in a pale dress holds a long object beside another woman seated near a woven screen.
Two hands hold opposite ends of a long ribbon of playing cards.
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