The Vampire or Spectre of Guiana, 1791, plate 58 from Volume II of Narrative of a Five Years Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, engraved by Anker Smith 1759-1819 pub. 1806 -
John Gabriel Stedman
Apotheosis of Cosimo I de' Medici (1519-74) from the ceiling of the Salone dei Cinquecento, 1565 -
Giorgio Vasari
Esther, costume for 'Esther', from Volume I of 'Research on the Costumes and Theatre of All Nations', -
Philippe Chery
Two fairies flying through the air one seated on a bee and the other on a dragonfly 1817-29 -
Amelia Jane Murray
Cupid inspiring the Plants with Love, painted for Robert Thorntons Book New Illustration of the Sexual System of Linnaeus, c.1797 -
Philip Reinagle
Arrest of the Huguenot Jacqueline de Montbel d'Etremont (1541-1600) 1875 -
Vasily Polenov
A Group of Vultures waiting for the storm to blow over Let us prey -
Thomas Nast
Joan Arc- The Country Girl who Led a King to Victory, illustration from Newnes Pictorial Book of Knowledge -
Dudley C. Tennant
Daughter of the Sea, illustration from The Three Golden Apples, by Nathaniel Hawthorne -
Arthur Rackham
The dragon sank towards him opening its terrible jaws from Hero Myths and Legends of the British Race by MI Ebbutt 1910 -
William Henry Margetson
Melancholia, design for the frontispiece of The Sphinx without a Secret by Oscar Wilde, pub. by Elkin Mathews and John Lane, 1894 -
Charles Ricketts
Musical angel within a trompe l'oeil cloister, detail of an angel playing a mandolin, from the interior west facade -
Santi Di Tito
A Water-Nymph, front cover illustration from William Shakespeares The Tempest, edition published 1926 -
Arthur Rackham