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.
8 illustrations
A robed observer looks skyward through an instrument on a terrace furnished with globes and astronomical apparatus.
Planetary orbits surround a central Sun within a rectangular dark field.
Several dark sunspot groups interrupt a densely stippled circular surface.
Numerous bright streaks cross a dark sky above a low horizon.
A dark circular disc is surrounded by a brilliant irregular corona.
Several elongated paths cross one another around a small central solar region.
A banded globe sits within broad, sharply outlined rings against a dark field.
A large telescope tube meets an intricate arrangement of wheels, small tubes, handles and metal fittings.
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