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
A narrow stair coils upward through a black field scattered with tiny stars.
Planetary orbits surround a central Sun within a rectangular dark field.
Several dark sunspot groups interrupt a densely stippled circular surface.
A dark circular disc is surrounded by a brilliant irregular corona.
A banded globe sits within broad, sharply outlined rings against a dark field.
A pale globe appears within an irregular dark field of stars.
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