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.
23 illustrations
The two travellers stand beside seated and reclining figures under trees, with pale ground separating the group from the deeper shade.
Lines descend from the Logos through its three aspects towards the Lord of the World, the Buddha, Bodhisattva and Mahachohan.
Three winged spirits spring around a tall flowering stem against an almost empty pale field.
A bespectacled man with a long beard wears a light jacket and a dark bow tie.
A hooded skeleton holds an hourglass and rests a long scythe against its shoulder.
A radiant woman stands above a veiled figure at the entrance to a rocky hollow.
The upper diagram overlaps three vertical circles while the lower places a dark sphere within several larger circular fields.
Seven lettered circles overlap within a larger system labelled with worlds of spirit and thought.
A dark winged figure descends before a brilliant circular opening among clouds, with smaller forms behind and a rounded world below.
A bright winged figure bends towards a dark, downward-hanging human form amid curling clouds.
A traveller stands among towering flowers beneath a broad arc of light.
A balding man in a dark suit and patterned tie appears in profile within a curling ornamental border.
A large winged figure spreads its arms above two children crossing an uneven riverside path.
A radiant standing figure presides above ranks of winged beings within an immense dark hall.
A helmeted winged figure pauses beside an enormous tree amid a dense forest of vines and undergrowth.
An upright angel with spread wings commands the bright upper scene while a mass of armed winged figures plunges below.
Figures cling to the last exposed rock as waves rise around them beside a great striped animal.
A reclining traveller lies at the foot of a vast bright stairway rising through dark trees.
A robed man rests against a rock while a pale angel hovers above him beneath a dark sky.
A kneeling figure raises both arms towards a luminous angel in a wooded garden.
A great angel rises above dark rocks and water while supporting a small pale human form.
A crowded small boat pitches on dark waves while a pale figure stands beyond it on the sea.
A figure hangs from the roots of a coastal tree above the waves.
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