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.
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A standing human outline contains a sequence of animals and figures associated with the zodiac.
Four circles join into a vertical geometric arrangement with a hexagram above and a pentagram below.
Circles labelled Geburah, Chesed, Hod, Netsah and Jesod descend between star-bearing circles.
Concentric inscribed bands enclose a central radiant field with divine and celestial emblems.
An upper crowned human figure spreads both arms above a complex descending network of circles.
Rows of compact symbols are paired with names of metals, salts, liquids and laboratory processes.
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