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.
7 illustrations
A broad domed building stands between tall minarets above a dense cluster of smaller roofs.
An elongated central shape lies within intersecting outlined compartments.
Nine small rounded projections rise above a rectangular base.
Large pale domes rise above a high stone platform between slender pointed minarets.
A cross and tall candles rise above vessels, flowers and a richly ornamented frontal.
A broad patterned textile hangs above a small arrangement of chalices, a rectangular case and pale folded cloth.
A narrow central shaft rises between two immense curved fields of fine white lines.