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
Two slender figures stand at the edge of a broad black curve and look towards a great face in the pale moon.
A youthful figure and a bearded elder sit close together beneath an overhanging tree.
A crowned figure holds joined hands at the centre of an enclosure of great wings.
A tall elaborately adorned figure rises above two small attendants beside a great hanging lamp.
A kneeling woman raises a severed head towards her face above a black pool.
A pale winged figure rises above a dark rock with one arm extended into the surrounding darkness.
A large bird spreads its wings across a tiled room beside an elaborately dressed princess.
A great dark crow perches beside a tree while a long red-and-white stocking hangs from the branch.
A small child in a pale winter coat stands beside an iron gate beneath snow-laden branches.
Four great white swans spread their wings above a kneeling figure at an altar.
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