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.
12 illustrations
Children reach towards the fruit of a branching tree above a broad stylised plant with an enclosed central figure.
A company of small figures gathers beneath a tall branching tree while the two travellers stand at the edge of the woodland scene.
Bird-bodied creatures with human faces perch among twisted trunks and tangled branches, surrounding two small travellers on the ground below.
A stag with branching antlers faces a unicorn beneath the trees.
A bare trunk divides into many slender branches with small forked endings.
Bare trees spread dark branching silhouettes across an orange-red sky.
A seated young man rests his head on one hand beneath a tree with red branches.
Two cloaked figures turn away from one another beside a bare tree.
A pale figure leans backwards within a narrow crescent-like form while another reaches upward nearby.
A pale woman bends at the water’s edge beneath a dark arch of roots and branching forms.
Several figures meet at the steps of a large garden house beneath branching trees.
A winding river cuts through a bare valley beneath black, branching trees.
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