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.
16 illustrations
Two small figures stand below immense concentric ranks of winged beings surrounding a radiant centre.
Two figures walk through falling snow beneath a lighted window containing five pentacles.
Three draped women stand close together at the edge of a shallow woodland stream.
Three tall pale figures stand close together beneath diagonal strokes of snow.
A line of robed travellers appears to move through pale clouds above a seated meditator and distant landscape.
Two richly dressed figures grapple with drawn swords beneath a snow-covered pine.
Purple, green and blue circular bands enclose a pale figure above snowy mountains.
An aged man kneels before a luminous robed figure and raises the hem of its garment towards his face.
A lone figure lowers his head and advances with a long stick.
A crowd of little workers surrounds a steep-roofed cottage beneath snowy trees.
Two figures hurry through an open landscape of pale snow and dark branching vegetation.
A man supports a lifeless figure on the snow while the body of a wolf lies nearby.
A seated man watches a carp pushing through a narrow opening in a frozen pond.
A high snow-covered peak rises above rocks, pines and a small waterfall.
A crowded company of armed men surrounds a kneeling figure in a snowy setting.
A small red-cloaked traveller climbs beside a bare tree above snow-covered huts.
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