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.
7 illustrations
A small standing figure is wrapped in a long, heavily patterned garment.
Two views compare the back and palm of a slender hand with long, pointed fingers.
The upper diagram overlaps three vertical circles while the lower places a dark sphere within several larger circular fields.
A dark-haired woman turns sideways with her hands resting together in her lap.
Several seated investigators surround a small table while two men hold the central woman’s hands and attend to her position.
A seated man places one hand beneath a table into a round wire enclosure.
A suited man writes at a cloth-covered table before a wall of vertical panels.
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