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.
20 illustrations
A praying knight's effigy lies on a tomb beneath three hanging swords, with a fourth along the base.
A bright bolt drops from dark cloud into a crowded company of armed men beneath a standing figure.
A shining ascent crowded with luminous figures rises through immense banks of cloud.
Three bow-bearing centaurs turn toward the descending poets beside a river occupied by half-submerged figures, with a dark rocky height behind them.
A long company of figures crouches and writhes across an open waste, raising their hands against small streaks descending through the dark sky.
A huge bent figure reaches down with a robed traveller held in his hand above a dark rocky opening.
Two large wheels carry ascending and descending creatures beneath a ruling figure at the top.
An upper crowned human figure spreads both arms above a complex descending network of circles.
A brilliant yellow head sends long white and blue rays down across a pale landscape.
A dark winged figure descends before a brilliant circular opening among clouds, with smaller forms behind and a rounded world below.
A long-haired woman stretches her arms into a starkly divided field of black and white.
A horizontal figure sweeps through streaming flames above three figures spread across the rocky lower scene.
A tall robed figure sits on a pale mount beneath a canopy of trees.
An elongated dark figure descends diagonally through broad curling streams.
A long airborne figure crosses a dark star-filled sky with arms extended.
A pointed Gothic doorway stands within pale stone walls below a warm bare hillside.
A small female figure stretches one hand towards a high banister while descending a narrow staircase.
A bare-chested man is bound beneath an enormous descending blade while small rats gather around him.
Pale faces and reaching hands emerge among tall dark folds.
Three bent bodies occupy a narrow field of streaked yellow, red and black beneath the lettering.
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