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.
35 illustrations
A pale-robed woman stands among slender trees with deer gathered around her.
Tiny winged beings and small animals gather beneath a twisted tree.
Two brightly dressed young figures dance together at the edge of a green woodland.
Large pale swans crowd the woodland scene around a woman with flowing hair and clothes.
Uzume dances before the cave where Ama-terasu has hidden, drawing laughter from the gathered gods.
A young man braces himself against a tree while holding a great pale swan.
Small figures cluster within a compact woodland ornament beneath the contents list.
A company gathers in a flowered woodland hollow while two robed travellers watch from the side.
A company of small figures gathers beneath a tall branching tree while the two travellers stand at the edge of the woodland scene.
A young woman bends among flowers beside a slender tree, holding a small gathering of blossoms.
A long line of robed figures passes beside dark trees and low water, their bodies lit against the shadowed wood.
Three draped women stand close together at the edge of a shallow woodland stream.
A seated man holds a curved instrument or staff beside his body while lifting one hand among hanging leaves.
Two travellers walk beneath dense trees beside a stream, with a fallen trunk crossing the foreground.
A seated woman and a large standing man occupy a woodland vehicle surrounded by horned animal heads.
A green-clad young woman reaches towards a plainly dressed traveller on a woodland path.
A red-bearded gnome leads a brightly dressed procession through a dark woodland lane.
An elderly cross-legged figure sits in a woodland clearing with a narrow support or shadow beneath the body.
A small rider moves beneath a dense stand of extremely tall reddish trees.
A young hunter stands beside a cloaked figure as a deer approaches through the forest.
A large boar occupies the foreground while figures and a pale horse appear among the trees behind it.
A mounted hunter raises a long spear beside a stag surrounded by hounds.
A tall robed figure sits on a pale mount beneath a canopy of trees.
A gamekeeper in a cap walks towards a fox caught beside a tree root.
Two children look around a large tree trunk above a web of spreading roots.
A small grotesque figure holds out a bright coin beside a knight mounted on a white horse.
A white-robed figure appears deep within a ravine of twisted trunks and dark foliage.
Tall trunks, dense ferns and tangled foliage enclose a bright opening beside still water.
A young woman in a pale green dress and white head covering sits beside a huge moss-covered tree.
A face-like rocky outcrop rises above a stream among ferns and trees.
Several stone lanterns stand beneath trees in a densely drawn garden.
A crowned traveller in a blue cloak walks between trees whose trunks form distorted faces.
A small boy faces a pale horse upon a narrow woodland path.
A small red-cloaked figure walks among immense dark trees and scattered lights.
A young woman stands beside a bearded figure beneath a tree.
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