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.
26 illustrations
Garuda combines a powerful human-shaped body with a bird’s beak and extravagantly patterned wings.
The dark wings cut across a luminous atmosphere, directing the eye towards the world beneath them.
The serpent’s dark coil lies directly beneath the bent figure, creating a quiet meeting between two sharply different bodies.
An immense winged figure rises above fallen and recoiling soldiers beneath a storm-filled sky.
A small winged figure climbs a dark wooded height while water, plains and cloud spread far beyond it.
A recumbent armoured body lies beside surging water beneath a black storm front.
A group of robed figures approaches along a narrow ledge beneath a dark sky.
A long line of robed figures passes beside dark trees and low water, their bodies lit against the shadowed wood.
Three winged, snake-haired figures rise over a dark rock wall while the two travellers stand beneath them, looking upward.
Injured figures stand and crouch beside the two poets beneath a raised, armed figure in the darker background.
Two robed figures ride a winged creature whose long tail curls across the open darkness below a rocky wall.
A frontal armoured figure holds an upright sword with both hands beneath dark wings.
A slender crowned figure stands beneath two immense dark wings with a sword in one hand and a shield in the other.
A seated figure with flowing white garments and a radiant circular halo looks down from a rocky island.
A dark winged figure crouches among pale clouds, its head thrust forward beneath a spiked or flame-like crown.
A human figure is stretched across a large wheel between pale winged beings.
A dark robed figure sits behind an immense open book beneath a moon and long-winged birds.
A seated young figure lowers his head beneath a tall stone-framed window with an oval lock.
Two pale women stand facing forward beneath the extended wings of a dark central figure.
A pale body arches backwards with one arm raised under a great spread of dark feathers.
A dark-clothed figure rests a hand against the face above an open book.
A kneeling woman throws both arms upwards beneath heavy cloud-like shapes.
A pale woman on hands and knees faces a goat beneath a crowded group of dark figures.
Three pale figures raise their arms beneath a broad vessel filled with a city-like landscape.
A small wooden vessel heels between huge dark rocks while white waves climb around the hull.
A company of fantastic beings gathers before a dark cave beside an immense tree.
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