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.
8 illustrations
A moustached man in a dark jacket and high white collar faces slightly towards the viewer.
The upper half of a globe opens to reveal a second landscape inside the outer shell.
A small sailing ship occupies open water between broken ice and distant frozen shores.
A sailing ship sits beneath towering pale walls covered with long hanging ice formations.
Several dark stones lie across a broad pale iceberg above ridged sides and open water.
Two immense ice formations rise on either side of a dark channel.
A dark circular depression interrupts the top of a globe viewed over the northern continents.
A tall penguin stands in profile, its dark head and back contrasting with the broad pale breast.
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