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 figure sits upright in bed with hands covering the face beneath nine horizontal swords.
A broad-robed figure spreads its arms above two pale faces.
Two standing figures handle ropes as a third emerges from a square opening among ruined walls and broken columns.
Patterned beads surround smaller pendants, including a hand, a scarab-like form and a square object bearing a face.
A compact frontal figure stands with bent legs beneath a broad face and open mouth.
An upright hand displays squared fingertips, a broad palm and a strong thumb extending to the side.
A central square names John Heydon and gives his London birth information.
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