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.
13 illustrations
Two unclothed figures stand beneath a large winged presence and a radiating sun.
A sword-bearing angel stands in a break of dazzling light while two human figures bend away beneath the trees.
A woman holding a tall water vessel faces a kneeling elder beside stone steps.
A woman stands facing a robed traveller within a quiet stand of tall, slender trees.
A company of small figures gathers beneath a tall branching tree while the two travellers stand at the edge of the woodland scene.
Two robed figures stand close together under spreading branches, with a pale strip of distant sky visible beyond them.
Two travellers stand before a scattered gathering of figures beneath a steep wooded cliff.
Two figures stand close beneath a tall tree, one lifting a small cup towards the blue sky.
Two cloaked figures turn away from one another beside a bare tree.
An old man sits high in a large tree whose branches burst into pink flowers.
Two children look around a large tree trunk above a web of spreading roots.
Two broad landscapes place small classical figures beneath dense trees.
Two young figures stand among fruit trees and scattered leaves.
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