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.
4 illustrations
Tall trunks fill the narrow image with closely repeated vertical lines.
A pale-robed woman stands beneath a pointed arch with one arm raised towards a small lamp.
A pale woman bends at the water’s edge beneath a dark arch of roots and branching forms.
A man supports a frightened young woman beneath a pair of enormous disembodied eyes.
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