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.
5 illustrations
Several scaled dragons interlace across a broad rectangular panel edged with a narrow border.
A wooded rock formation rises above a stream beneath a low evening light.
Several bodies rise or turn within a narrow curling fire, with a robed traveller standing nearby in the dark rocky setting.
A tall seated skeleton appears within a narrow cliff-like enclosure above a densely packed mound of pale bodies.
A face and pale body are compressed into a narrow vertical opening between high geometric walls.