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.
8 illustrations
A cloaked traveller leaves eight standing cups and climbs toward rocky heights beneath a moon.
Seated and cloaked figures line a narrow ledge against a sheer wall.
An oarsman leans over his long pole at the prow of a small boat while the two cloaked passengers stand close together amid bodies in the water.
The two cloaked travellers are surrounded by winged figures carrying raised hooks and poles across a rocky bank.
The travellers meet a slow company of hooded figures whose broad garments fill the sheltered passage beneath a rock overhang.
A long-bearded traveller strides on narrow snow-shoes with a staff in one hand.
A small red-cloaked traveller climbs beside a bare tree above snow-covered huts.
A thin elderly woman in a ragged red garment carries a staff beside several animals.
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