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.
42 illustrations
A narrow stair coils upward through a black field scattered with tiny stars.
A luminous human form rises within a tall flame above a raised fire altar.
Four long-robed figures gather around an open stone coffin while a winged human form ascends above it.
On the shore a kneeling traveller faces a bearded elder while his companion stands behind him.
A long-haired woman leans into a stream beside reeds and a wooded bank, holding the traveller beneath the water.
A traveller bends down beside the stream while a seated guide and a group of women watch within a wooded clearing.
A crowned woman sits with joined hands on a cloud beneath countless angelic heads.
A cloaked figure lies face down beneath an enormous curved blade.
A robed figure rises through a bright bank of cloud while another leans back below with one arm raised.
A robed figure stands above a vast company of skeletal and partly restored bodies in a rocky hollow.
A standing male figure raises one arm within a pointed starburst while the other arm extends outward.
A pale human form appears above a hollow surrounded by broken rocks.
Steep gables and narrow towers form a jagged silhouette beside a canal.
Two massive square towers stand on either side of a thin central spire.
Great tree trunks rise above a dense, dark bank and a small stream or path.
Long hanging branches arch over a dark pool.
A great dark wave rises in a smooth arc above a small cluster of buildings.
Dark buildings rise on both sides of a narrow pale waterway.
Two sharply drawn cliff edges recede towards a narrow point in the distance.
A small locomotive and trailing smoke move across a line of tall arches.
A young woman faces forward with long hair falling over one shoulder.
A face emerges from tightly drawn waves beneath two immense rising wings.
A crowned armoured figure rises behind pale hills above a tiny city skyline.
A knight raises his sword before a vast dark winged creature.
Two pale profiles face a small city set low against an otherwise black field.
Three richly patterned worshippers turn towards a haloed figure in a timber-framed setting.
A woman’s sharp profile occupies the lower corner beneath an immense dark wing.
A smaller praying woman stands within the curved wings of a much larger figure.
A young woman faces forward with her hands joined in prayer.
A crowned figure holds joined hands at the centre of an enclosure of great wings.
A frontal armoured figure holds an upright sword with both hands beneath dark wings.
An elderly cross-legged figure sits in a woodland clearing with a narrow support or shadow beneath the body.
A line of robed travellers appears to move through pale clouds above a seated meditator and distant landscape.
A robed man raises one hand before a seated ruler while attendants and soldiers watch.
A monumental human form with a great scarab at the head towers over an altar and rows of small attendants.
An angular house stands above a second complex of rounded towers, terraces and connecting structures.
A long pale wave breaks behind a dark coastal rock, throwing narrow curtains of spray towards the heavy sky.
A central nude figure stands beneath a canopy formed by two great curved bodies or wings.
A small boat crosses the foreground below a hill crowned by an elaborate palace.
A long-tailed creature fills the upper drawing while a robed man and a hanging lamp occupy the lower panel.
A low fan of long leaves supports many branching stems of buds and small flowers.
Thin stems carry open star-shaped blooms above a dense cluster of round leaves.
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