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.
20 illustrations
On the shore a kneeling traveller faces a bearded elder while his companion stands behind him.
A winged steersman rises over a close company of pale figures arriving across the water.
A seated figure bends his head towards his knees beneath a rocky overhang.
An immense eagle carries a cloaked figure through a bright region of cloud.
A woman with a spider’s many legs lies amid a rocky scene while the two poets look down.
Seated and cloaked figures line a narrow ledge against a sheer wall.
A lightly draped figure faces two robed travellers amid rolling banks of smoke.
Three figures move through a dark rocky passage filled with curling smoke.
A kneeling traveller bends towards a prone figure among many bodies stretched along a narrow rocky ledge.
Two standing poets step carefully through a dense company of figures lying face down.
Two small figures stand below immense concentric ranks of winged beings surrounding a radiant centre.
Three robed travellers stand on a rocky edge beside curling flames.
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 luminous company descends through clouds towards the foreground, where several draped figures become individually visible.
Two great circular companies of winged figures surround two small observers on a cloud.
Winged figures gather into a tall cross above clouds, with Dante and Beatrice watching from the lower right.
Several sweeping ranks of winged figures curve across the sky around two distant observers.
Winged figures rise around a luminous upper gathering while a small pair watches from the clouds below.
A crowned woman sits with joined hands on a cloud beneath countless angelic heads.
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