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.
9 illustrations
Broad layered petals rise from a dark water surface surrounded by leaves.
A dark-haired man in a high collar looks outward from a photographic portrait.
A seated Osiris faces a royal figure accompanied by the falcon-headed Horus, with a standing goddess at the opposite side.
Lines descend from the Logos through its three aspects towards the Lord of the World, the Buddha, Bodhisattva and Mahachohan.
A monumental human form with a great scarab at the head towers over an altar and rows of small attendants.
A coiling dark path winds around a straight central staff beneath spread wings.
A dark-robed young figure stands beneath pale faces, elongated candles and sweeping black forms.
An enormous pale form twists through the darkness above three seated men.
Two armed riders advance across a pale desert while a walking figure carries long chains.
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