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.
2 illustrations
A fierce face with a projecting tongue fills the upper half of the orange-red plate.
A pale curved bone is decorated with blue-green bands beside a dark frog with bright eyes and a rectangular plaque.