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.
5 illustrations
Dense fine lines extend outwards from a small pale centre into a dark circular field.
A dense oval structure is built from repeated loops and small circular units around a central axis.
Lines descend from a dark solar segment to curved paths above a large Earth globe.
A segmented wheel sits above two magnetic poles crossed by flowing dotted lines.
A profile head is enclosed by a radiating oval field with labelled bands and body regions.