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.
23 illustrations
A long fish-like body rises beside a many-tiered gate above curling waves.
Large pale swans crowd the woodland scene around a woman with flowing hair and clothes.
An astonished young man approaches a richly dressed woman standing at a flower-covered doorway.
A hooded old woman leans on a stick beside a queen in a light gown.
A young man braces himself against a tree while holding a great pale swan.
Two elaborate faces and a curling body surround a tall candle in the heading for The Study.
A robed figure stands above a vast company of skeletal and partly restored bodies in a rocky hollow.
Serpents wrap around reclining and struggling human forms below the two upright observers on the rocky slope.
A seated woman and a large standing man occupy a woodland vehicle surrounded by horned animal heads.
An armed figure stands beside a great egg resting on a low platform.
A pale sea-nymph sits on a shell-like form and raises a long dark strand above the water.
A woman holds a small toad against her breast while a man faces her on a city terrace.
A great bird spreads its wings from the summit of a narrow rock above a small town.
A dark figure emerges beside shallow water as a crowned woman approaches with a covering cloth.
A great dragon curls around a reclining woman within a long open grave.
A bird with a long curving neck stands within a pale crowned vessel set in a formal niche.
An armoured knight bends towards a great white swan beneath a curtain of slender trees.
A thin stream of smoke rises from a small lamp and expands into a rounded frame containing a woman’s profile.
Apollo reaches towards Daphne as leaves and branches extend from her raised hands and her lower body joins a tree-like support.
A line of many-legged creatures carries a long pointed coffin across a black field.
A crowned young king stands on broad steps before a richly decorated shrine.
A knight rests low on one knee with a long sword beside a broad hat.
A dark fish struggles upwards through long white streams of falling water.
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