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.
24 illustrations
A richly armoured rider reaches upward towards a princess leaning from a window.
An armoured skeletal rider advances upon a pale horse carrying a dark banner with a white flower.
A child rides a pale horse beneath an immense sun with a human face.
An armoured rider on a rearing horse carries a leafy wand across a sparse landscape with pyramidal hills.
A wreath-crowned rider on a pale horse carries a staff topped by a laurel ring, accompanied by other wand-bearers.
An armoured rider charges left with a raised sword, a wind-blown plume and a decorated horse.
An armoured knight displays a pentacle while seated on a dark horse before a low open landscape.
A rider is caught beneath the branches of a large tree as another armed figure approaches below.
A richly dressed rider points across a crowded landscape while armed attendants follow behind.
A mounted skeletal presence sweeps through a deeply shadowed field, with tangled bodies and threatening forms receding into the darkness behind it.
Saul lies on the ground beside a pale, rearing horse, one hand gripping the upright hilt of a sword at his body.
A crowned rider reaches towards the neck of a pale horse as cloud-like forms gather around the animal's legs.
A cloaked rider carries a young woman on a pale horse among underwater rocks and creatures.
A dark horse carries an elaborately dressed rider beneath diagonal bands of light.
A cloaked rider crosses a dark slope with hair and fabric streaming behind.
An armoured rider pauses beneath a spreading tree above a fallen knight.
A white horse lifts its forelegs while an elaborately dressed rider sits above a patterned saddle.
A vast black horse and rider rise above a line of small islands.
White horses carry young women through thin trees beneath a bright moon.
A striped creature stretches across the dark scene with a small rider holding tightly to its back.
A rider in red passes above a web of roots crowded with little faces and outstretched hands.
A cloaked rider on a dark horse sweeps through a storm above a rocky landscape.
A man in a long pale robe and head covering sits upon a dark horse.
A rider waits beneath a tree beside a pony and several dogs.
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