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.
8 illustrations
Seven serpentine heads extend across a garden towards a group of small human figures.
Garuda combines a powerful human-shaped body with a bird’s beak and extravagantly patterned wings.
A serpent coils beside a large foreground trunk within a dense avenue of trees.
Serpents wrap around reclining and struggling human forms below the two upright observers on the rocky slope.
Twelve animal and human zodiac figures occupy the outer compartments of a circular red-and-black diagram.
A standing figure with lowered arms is encircled by a long curling serpent bearing zodiacal signs.
Animal outlines and serpentine forms fill Plate II, accompanied by small human figures and letter-like devices.
A dark-cloaked figure bends towards a smaller body beneath the heading Preludium.
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