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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Garuda combines a powerful human-shaped body with a bird’s beak and extravagantly patterned wings.
A tall male figure and a pale-robed woman raise their arms among curling red and dark forms.
A central seed syllable lies within a circular field enclosed by four dark petals.
Six dark petals enclose a circular field containing a large seed syllable and a small aquatic creature.
An inverted triangle and a large central syllable occupy a ring of dark petals.
Two interlocking triangles enclose a dark central region with a small white animal.
A large pale downward-pointing triangle fills the centre of a dark petalled ring.
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