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.
6 illustrations
An astonished young man approaches a richly dressed woman standing at a flower-covered doorway.
A great dark-winged figure stands before a luminous opening containing a kneeling woman.
A crowned, bearded figure is mirrored upside down inside an oval serpent border.
Two opposed human figures extend their limbs inside a thin oval border, their bodies joined across a horizontal division.
A rectangular mirror filled with concentric rings stands between two tall candles above an inverted triangle.
Two figures lean towards a shallow basin above a flame.
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