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.
9 illustrations
Mounted warriors surge across an open slope with long lances raised.
Storm-driven water and ghostly warriors surround the boat carrying Yoshitsune and his companion Benkei.
Raiko encounters a weeping woman beside a mountain stream on the way to the Goblin King's stronghold.
Paul depicts the violent culmination of Raiko's expedition against Shutendoji, the Goblin King of Mount Oye.
A young warrior raises a weapon above overlapping soldiers, serpentine forms and fallen bodies.
An armoured archer stretches a bow from a chariot beside a lion, with horses, weapons and crowded figures filling the lower field.
A mass of helmeted warriors fills the lower field beneath long upright spears and a bright standard.
A winged warrior holds a long weapon over a fallen figure with raised hands.
A radiant crowned warrior faces an immense dark monster.
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