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
A young woman in profile wears a light draped garment and a small star-shaped hair ornament.
A suited man writes at a cloth-covered table before a wall of vertical panels.
Golden writing surrounds a large eye within a many-pointed star on a dark rectangular slate.
A dark triangle encloses a small eye above a larger eye set within a radiating star.