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
Two small robed figures stand on a rocky height beneath a wide night sky, with uneven ground and distant peaks below.
A lightly draped figure faces two robed travellers amid rolling banks of smoke.
A robed figure stands above a vast company of skeletal and partly restored bodies in a rocky hollow.
A radiant winged figure sits before an arched doorway high in a rock wall.
A hovering woman addresses the two robed travellers beside a rocky ledge, with another figure close behind her in the moving air.
Winged figures with long hooked weapons gather around an upright robed traveller on the edge of a dark hollow.
A woman in red sits high on a rugged rock beside a small child.
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