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.
28 illustrations
A narrow stair coils upward through a black field scattered with tiny stars.
A ring of changing moons surrounds a four-part interior containing small symbolic figures.
A bearded man in a folded cap looks sideways from a sharply outlined bust portrait.
A long-horned unicorn lifts its forelegs over low plants beneath a small star.
Two opposed sets of cones are divided by horizontal lines carrying historical dates and bracketed phase numbers.
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.
Two roughly drawn circles share a vertical axis with cardinal letters around their edges.
A numbered ring of waxing and waning moons surrounds crossing diagonals and a horizontal axis.
A small musician looks up towards a vast haloed figure seated among clouds.
Yeats turns slightly towards the viewer beneath a tousled mass of dark hair.
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