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.
87 illustrations
A solitary robed traveller stands among towering trunks, exposed roots and dark foliage, turning his face toward a narrow opening in the wood.
Plate G presents a many-coloured form above a church as the supposed clairvoyant effect of an organ performance of a chorus by Charles Gounod.
An immense eagle spreads its wings above a mountainous landscape and distant towers.
An armoured skeletal rider advances upon a pale horse carrying a dark banner with a white flower.
A bolt strikes the top of a tall tower as two figures fall towards the lower edges.
A moon with a human face hangs above two towers, two animals and a small creature rising from water.
A silhouetted figure reaches toward seven cups suspended in clouds, holding different fantastic objects.
An immense stepped tower rises above a crowded foreground of people and scattered masonry.
An Irish round tower rises beside a path and trees in one panel; the other encloses a frontal crowned figure within an oval.
Workers gather around the towering framework of a ship supported by immense timbers.
Seated figures huddle along the foot of a towering rock wall while two travellers move among them.
Three winged, snake-haired figures rise over a dark rock wall while the two travellers stand beneath them, looking upward.
A colossal winged figure rises behind the two small travellers, with exposed bodies embedded in the foreground ice.
Flames and curling smoke rise among a densely packed city’s towers and roofs.
Two towers are broken from above while small human figures fall beside their walls.
Steep gables and narrow towers form a jagged silhouette beside a canal.
Two massive square towers stand on either side of a thin central spire.
Two pale profiles face a small city set low against an otherwise black field.
Small travellers cross a high platform above a city of brightly coloured towers, domes and striped roofs.
A towering traveller in a green coat stands amid brightly coloured domes and small houses.
Angular roofs and walls converge beneath a tall narrow tower.
Two armoured guardians bow beside a central cup below a towering cross of light.
A monumental human form with a great scarab at the head towers over an altar and rows of small attendants.
A narrow cluster of towers climbs from a dark precipice into a misty pale sky.
A small armoured traveller stands beneath immense light-filled walls and projecting towers.
Terraced buildings and a central tower rise from a small island-like landscape beside an unfamiliar creature.
An angular house stands above a second complex of rounded towers, terraces and connecting structures.
A pale pink and gold figure towers over a low hill and small temple-like structure.
A stepped structure rises above a wavy waterline beside trees and small figures.
A broad white surge towers behind a dense field of ornate buildings.
Pale domes, towers and deep arches rise against a blue night scattered with small lights.
A small figure stands on the projecting platform of a slender minaret with an arm extended outward.
A high flowering arch frames bright white domes and towers beneath a blue sky.
A tall Gothic gate tower rises above adjoining roofs and small street-level figures.
A lighthouse stands above steep rocks surrounded by breaking water.
Several riders gather outside a square stone tower beside a castellated wall.
A fantastically dressed rider speeds across a rocky foreground beneath a towering pale mountain.
An immense elaborately dressed figure rises above a crowded city of towers and roofs.
A thin column of water rises high above a broad circular basin.
A bowed ruler sits on a richly decorated throne within a palace crowded with towers and hanging forms.
A dense mass of round towers and battlements rises from a dark foreground.
Two small children stand on a broad pink bridge above winding blue water.
Coloured elephants carry towers and rounded compartments filled with fantastically dressed birds.
A centaur bends beside a small haloed human figure in front of a great black city silhouette.
An immense winged creature stands behind a woman and a surprised traveller.
Pale towers and a many-tiered palace emerge between dark foliage beneath a blue night sky.
A small sleepless woman lies at the top of an immense stack of patterned mattresses under a curtained canopy.
A traveller stands among towering flowers beneath a broad arc of light.
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