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.
9 illustrations
A crowd of dark silhouettes watches a vast blazing sky.
A young archer pulls his bow beside seated companions.
A seated boy raises food towards a bearded elderly man leaning upon a staff.
A man recoils beside a fallen figure while women watch from a doorway.
Several early aircraft cross a clouded sky above a tightly packed group of people.
A man peers through a dark doorway with his hand braced against the frame.
Two figures grapple within a field of heavy black shadow.
A rider waits beneath a tree beside a pony and several dogs.
A ragged traveller bends above scattered objects beside a shallow pool.
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