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.
4 illustrations
Small travellers cross a high platform above a city of brightly coloured towers, domes and striped roofs.
An immense elaborately dressed figure rises above a crowded city of towers and roofs.
A grotesque creature rises from tall grass before a man sheltering beneath a small roof.
A man and a woman stand beside an ornate riverside lamp with London’s clock tower behind them.