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.
10 illustrations
Several bodies rise or turn within a narrow curling fire, with a robed traveller standing nearby in the dark rocky setting.
A long line of robed figures passes beside dark trees and low water, their bodies lit against the shadowed wood.
A bare-chested figure rises from an open grave, facing the two robed travellers who stand along its edge beneath an immense field of darkness.
An elongated pale face appears among flowers, small figures and intricate ornamental forms.
A tall cloaked figure rises through a triangular shadow with one arm extended.
Two white-clothed women appear among tall tree trunks while a man sits at the roots with an arm extended.
A pale figure rises from dark water towards a monkey leaning at the edge.
A heavily cloaked figure sits bent forward beside a glowing fire, one hand supporting the face.
Several figures sit beneath a bright rectangular window while a vast dark silhouette stretches across the foreground.
An elongated figure walks ahead of smaller overlapping human forms.
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