Fantasy and Mythical Illustrations

Vibrant illustrations inspired by myth and literature, including scenes from operas and epic tales, showcasing imaginative artistry.

Dore, Gustave (1832 - 1883), illustration, from ""Divine Comedy"", by Dante Alighieri, canto 13: ""Inferno"", Virgil guiding Dante through the seventh circle of hell, wood engraving, coloured, 1860, private collection,

RICART, ENRIC C. PINTOR ESPAÑOL. VILLANUEVA Y GELTRU 1893-1960. " EL DRAC " , OLEO DEL AÑO 1925. MUSEO BALAGUER.

Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Hell, Song XVII) by Franz von Bayros

Design for the title page of De Gijsbrecht van Aemstel. Draughtsman: Antoon Derkinderen. Dating: 1869 - 1925. Measurements: h 172 mm × w 161 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Escena ilustrada de la ópera de Richard Wagner, El anillo de los Nibelungos, editada por Ediciones Diana, de Barcelona. Alberic se apodera del oro del Rin. Grabado de 1926. Author: Joan Llaverias Labro.

Dore, Gustave (1832 - 1883), illustration, from ""Divine Comedy"", by Dante Alighieri, canto 13: ""Inferno"", Virgil guiding Dante through the seventh circle of hell, wood engraving, coloured, 1860, private collection,

EL ASTROLOGO - 1918-1919 - COMEDOR DE SIR SAXTON NOBLE EN WRETHAM HALL, NORFOLK, INGLATERRA - 2,07x1,31 m. Author: SERT JOSE MARIA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. Norfolk. ENGLAND.

Vultures on a Tree. Artist: Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1796-1875 Paris). Dimensions: Sheet: 10 11/16 x 15 1/8 in. (27.1 x 38.4cm). Date: 1810-75. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

A man clings to a tree, struggling not to fall into a cauldron containing a monster while a bear and snakes look on; rats gnaw at the trunk of the tree; representing the threat and eventual victory of Death. Engraving by M. Mouzyn, 1656 (), after A.P. van de Venne.

The First Book of Urizen, Plate 16 (Bentley 17), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm) and Plate: 5 7/8 x 3 5/8 inches (14.9 x 9.2 cm), blood, globe, literary theme, sinews

Study for a tulip scale. Designer: Theo Colenbrander. Dating: 1918. Measurements: h 568 mm × w 434 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

DURER, Albrecht (1471-1528). Apocalypse of St. John. 1496-1498. The Fall of the Rebel Angels. Flemish art. Xylography. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Correr Museum Library.

Titania, illustration for Act II, Scene ii, A Midsummer Nights Dream. Artist: Edwin Austin Abbey, American, 1852-1911, M.A. (HON.) 1897

'Unconquerable', c1914, (1914). Artist: Arthur Rackham.

Jerusalem, Plate 1, Frontispiece, Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1804 to 1820, Relief etching printed in orange with pen and black ink, watercolor, and gold on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper, Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm) and Plate: 8 3/4 x 6 3/8 inches (22.3 x 16.2 cm), chains, coat, crypt, door, globe, hat, lantern, light, literary theme, men, religious and mythological subject, tomb

Melancholie Kupferstich von Albrecht Dürer aus dem Buch Der Freimaurer von Eugen Lennhoff, erschienen 1932 / Melancholy Engraved by Albrecht Duerer from the book The Freemason by Eugen Lennhoff published 1932, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated,

Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Heaven, Song IV) by Franz von Bayros

The Flower Book - Meadow Sweet. From The Flower Book, 1905. Sir Edward Burne-Jones .

Mermaid & Dolphin: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Arthur Rackham (1867-1939 British) Victoria & Albert Museum, London

A winged putto and turtle doves second half 19th century Jules-Edmond-Charles Lachaise French. A winged putto and turtle doves 386257

Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Purgatory, Song I) by Franz von Bayros, detail

Illustration to the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, Dalí, Salvador (1904-1989)

Death as a harlequin, bilboquet playing. The death dressed like Harlequin, with a bilboquet in his hand. He tries to leave a skull with a swing movement on a skewer. Above death, a part of a head is visible.

Aan de bron.A naked woman and a deer stand at a stream. The woman has a waving cloth around her shoulders.

De Dood als harlekijn, bilboquet spelend.Death, dressed as a harlequin, with a bilboquet in his hand. He tries to leave a skull with a swing movement on a skewer. Above death, a part of a head is visible.

Austria, Vienna, Illustration of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy (Hell, Song IX) by Franz von Bayros, detail

Babylon Hath Been a Golden Cup, 1859 Artist: Simeon Solomon, Exhibited at the French Gallery Winter Exhibition in 1859. It illustrates a passage in Jeremiah containing the prophet's lamentation over the Jewish people's captivity under the kingdom of Babylon: 'Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of God, which hath made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine, therefore all the nations are mad.', Art Movement, Pre-Raphaelite, Ink, Musical instrument, Harp, Bible, Leopard, Religion, Judaism, Bible, Old Testament

Illustration by Fulchran Jean Harriet depicting a subject from the literary work Atala, drawn with pen and ink on blue paper, created between 1796 and 1805.

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, The First Book of Urizen, Plate 10, "7. From the caverns of his jointed spine.. ." (Bentley 11), 1794. Color-printed relief etching in green with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

The Masque of the Red Death, Poe s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illustrated by Arthur Rackham The Masque of the Red Death, Poe s Tales of Mystery and Imagination, illustrated by Arthur Rackham Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 20636472

The Celestial Art Made 1894 France. Lithograph in black on off-white loose chine . Odilon Redon

Winged man embraces a naked woman. Draughtsman: anonymous. Dating: 1900 - 1970. Measurements: h 510 mm × w 290 mm. Museum: Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

William Blake, British (1757-1827), The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea, c. 1805, pen and ink with watercolor over graphite

c 1937, C W Bartlett art, man fishing in shallow reef at twilight with torches

Maria Malibran for Harp, Huib Luns, 1917 print A naked woman stands up with her arms up for a big harp. Under her, birds fly and splashes on the harp. At the bottom two ribbons with rules from a poem by Alfred de Musset. paper woman (showing herself) undressed, quasi-nude. arm raised upward - AA - both arms or hands. harp. birds

Illustration by Alphonse Mucha from "Clio" a work by French author Anatole France; 1900. Mucha (1860 - 1939); was a Czech Art Nouveau painter

Temptation of St. Anthony - Detail Hieronymus Bosch (ca.1450-1516 Netherlandish) Oil On Wood Panel Museu Nacional de Arte Antigua, Lisbon, Portugal

Satan Calling up his Legions 1807, Pen & Watercolor William Blake 1757-1827/ British The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, California, USA

Death on horseback, (vision of John the Baptist), Illustration from the Dore Bible 1866. In 1866, the French artist and illustrator Gustave Doré (18321883), published a series of 241 wood engravings for a new deluxe edition of the 1843 French translation of the Vulgate Bible, popularly known as the Bible de Tours. This new edition was known as La Grande Bible de Tours and its illustrations were immensely successful.

HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC/ LES GANTS NOIRS D'YVETTE GUILBERT, 1894. Carton (huile). Museum: MUSEE TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, ALBI, France.

The Vision of Saint Joseph (Vision de Saint Joseph) James Tissot (French, 1836-1902). The Vision of Saint Joseph (Vision de Saint Joseph), 1886-1894. Opaque watercolor over graphite on gray wove paper, Image: 6 9/16 x 4 7/8 in. (16.7 x 12.4 cm). European Art 1886-1894

Unconquerable. An heroic woman carries forward the tattered flag of Belgium after invasion by the Germans in 1914. After an illustration by Arthur Rackham. From King Albert´s Book, published 1915. The illustration alludes to the Belgian people after their being invaded by the Germans in the First World War.

The National Covid Memorial Wall is a public mural painted by volunteers to commemorate victims of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom. Stretching a more than a third of a mile along the South Bank of the River Thames in London, opposite the Palace of Westminster, just outside St Thomas' Hospital, the mural consists of thousands of red and pink hearts, intending to have one heart for each of the casualties of COVID-19 in the United Kingdom. May 2021.

Amand (n.1860 - d.), Every evening/ ed. Marcketti/ Every evening/ Theater/ Salon/ Sundays & Thursdays Childings at 3 a.m. (Registered title (letter)), 1880. Color lithography. Carnavalet museum, history of Paris.

fine arts, Stuck, Franz von (1863 - 1928), painting, ""Waechter des Paradieses"" (The Guard of the Paradise), oil on canvas, 250 x 167 cm, 1889, Heilmann Collection, Munich,

Hours of the Night, 18th-19th century, Grégoire Gaspard, French, 1745 - 1843, 13 1/2 x 10 in. (34.29 x 25.4 cm), Silk; painted, cut supplementary warp, France, 18th-19th century

Fragment, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave foundation, Exotic polychrome birds on natural. Mark faces in opposite direction to the direction of the birds., London, England, ca. 1830, printed, dyed & painted textiles, Fragment

'The Land of Dreams' Date: 1918

Wisielcy /Fina /; Wawrzeniecki, Marian (1863-1943); 1907 () (1900-00-00-1910-00-00);Young Poland (Style), Partage Plus

Gallen-Kallela, Akseli, work, Praying lady, marker and black chalk, pŠŠcategory: drawing, 20 cm x 32.2 cm, Akseli Gallen-Kallela 1865 - 1931, a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the national epic of Finland.

"EL CRUCE"EUROPA(II)-1984-50X70-ACUARELA Y LAPIZ/PAPEL. Author: GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN.

'Series "Bestiary". Vladimir Sorokin'. Russia, Moscow, 1996. Dimensions: 29,7x20,8 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Author: Dmitry Prigov.

The First Book of Urizen, Plate 10, '7. From the caverns of his jointed spine . . . .' (Bentley 11), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching in green with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches (30.2 x 24.4 cm) and Plate: 6 x 4 1/4 inches (15.2 x 10.8 cm), blood, chain, fire, flames, hammer, literary theme, men, nudes, shackle, sitting, skeleton, text

MARTêNEZ COMPAîN Y BUJANDA, Baltasar Jaime (1735-1797). Trujillo del Perœ en el siglo XVIII. 1782 - 1785. Vol 2. Plate 120. 'Cazadores matando un Oso' (hunters killing a bear). Watercolour. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Palacio Real Library.

Mitología. Nix, diosa de la Noche, hija del cielo y la tierra, diosa de las tinieblas. Años 1920. Author: Apel·les Mestres Oñós.

The Tears of Orpheus; La Douleur d'Orphee. Gustave Moreau (1826-1898). Watercolour and gouache on paper. Executed circa 1887. 38 x 27.5cm.

Retablo de San Miguel y San Pedro, 1432-1433. Detalle con la representación de la Batalla final entre ángeles y demonios según el Libro de Apocalipsis. Retablo procedente del altar mayor de la iglesia de Sant Miquel de La Seu d'Urgell. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. Author: JAUME CIRERA (S. XV).

Happy New Year, from the New Years 1890 series (N227) issued by Kinney Bros. 1889-90 Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company Trade cards from the "New Years 1890 Cards" series (N227), a set of 50 cards issued in 1889-90 to promote Kinney Tobacco Company.. Happy New Year, from the New Years 1890 series (N227) issued by Kinney Bros.. 1889-90. Commercial color lithograph. Issued by Kinney Brothers Tobacco Company

2010.0154.2.. The Wild Swans (The Twelve Brothers Turned Into Swans), 1928. Arthur Joseph Gaskin. See also related image of 'The Twelve Brothers' 2002P35, an earlier stage in the re-telling of the Grimm Brothers fairy tale

The rare haul (The Mermaid), sculpture by Ernst Herter (1846-1917), woodcut from Moderne Kunst (Modern Art), illustrated magazine published by Richard Bong, 1891-1892, Year VI, No 3, Berlin.

The First Book of Urizen, Plate 21 (Bentley 16), Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1794, Color-printed relief etching in orange-brown with watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 10 x 7 1/8 inches (25.4 x 18.1 cm), Plate: 6 x 4 inches (15.2 x 10.2 cm), and Spine: 10 1/4 inches (26 cm), flames, literary theme, men, nudes, religious and mythological subject

Illustration von Gustave Dore (1832-1883) für Paradise Lost, Das verlorene Paradies, veröffentlicht 1667, ist ein episches Gedicht in Blankversen des englischen Dichters John Milton, Inferno, Hölle, Paradies, Engel, Verdammnis, Historisch, digital restaurierte Reproduktion von einer Vorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert, Record date not stated.

Ferdia, a warrior of Connaught, falls by the Hand of Cuchulain. Chromolithograph after an illustration by Stephen Reid from Eleanor Hull's Cuchulain The Hound of Ulster, Harrap, London, 1909.

Europe. A Prophecy, Plate 7, "Now comes the night . " (Bentley 8). Date/Period: 1794. Print. Brown print, pen, black ink and oil on cream-colored paper (Color-printed relief etching in dark brown with pen and black ink, oil and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper). Height: 375 mm (14.76 in); Width: 267 mm (10.51 in). Author: William Blake.

Case (Inrō) with Design of Lion (obverse); Waterfall (reverse) 19th century Japan. Case (Inrō) with Design of Lion (obverse); Waterfall (reverse) 58565

Wenceslao Ayguals de Izco (1801-1875). Spanish writer. Poor and Rich or The Witch of Madrid. 1849. Illustration by Urrabieta and Coderch. Colored engraving.

Tile of chimney pilaster, blue on white, part of headdress in shell form, chimney pilaster tile pilaster footage fragment ceramics pottery glaze, in the middle of the center 1914 construction City Hall Zandstraat Quarter Second World War war bombardment Rotterdam City Triangle 1940 Renaissance Coming from debris after bombing Rotterdam May 1940.

An American illustration of the Volcano which erupted at Vesuvius in 79 AD destroying the Roman town of Pompeii

Escena ilustrada de la ópera de Richard Wagner, El anillo de los Nibelungos, editada por Ediciones Diana, de Barcelona. Alberic muestra el tesoro del Nibelungo a Sigfrido. Grabado de 1926. Author: Joan Llaverias Labro.

The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 49, 'The Progress of Poesy.', William Blake, 1757-1827, British, between 1797 and 1798, Watercolor with pen and black ink over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page, Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm), child, children, fairies, flames, girl, infant, key, keys, literary theme, lyre, men, meteorology, mother, nude, rainbow, religious and mythological subject, science, shawl, shawls, snakes, text, vase, vessel, water, women

GLOBO SOBREVOLANDO UN INCENDIO. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. France.

The Poems of Thomas Gray, Design 59, 'The Bard.', William Blake, 1757-1827, British, between 1797 and 1798, Watercolor with pen and black ink and graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper with inlaid letterpress page, Sheet: 16 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches (41.9 x 32.4 cm), beard, clouds, crown (costume component), god, king (person), literary theme, men, musical instruments, religious and mythological subject, sleeping, sun, text, water, whip, women

The distance of this newly-discovered planet from the earth, is yet unknwon, but the saving by the introduction of the Silver and A. S. T. Co. Black Tips upon children's shoes, has proved to be millions of dollars annually. Parents, try them. , Fairies, Shoes, People, 19th Century American Trade Cards

He lies sleeping under anapple tree, where four queenssee him and fall in love withhim, wherefore they take himprisoner to Morgan Le Fay'scastle, up there on the hill

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Divina Commedia (Divine Comedy), Illustration by Franz Von Bayros, Inferno (Hell), Canto II

Illustration for Hyalis. Le petit faune aux yeux bleus. the novel by Albert Samain, (1858 - 1900). illustration by G. Mossa. Paris 1918.

Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, America. A Prophecy, Plate 12, "Thus Wept the Angel Voice....", 1793. Relief etching printed in blue with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper.

Sieglinde - "This healing and honeyed draught of mead deign to accept from me" Siegmund - "Set it first to thy lips"

Harlequin and Death by Somov, Konstantin Andreyevich (1869-1939) / State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow / Symbolism / 1907 / Russia / Watercolour, Gouache on Paper / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 17x12

The Red Sea and Mecca, by Muhammad Al Idrisi (1099-1165), taken from the Atlas of the World, 12th Century.

'The Huntress Diane', c1920. Artist: Arthur Rackham.

America. A Prophecy, Plate 12, 'Thus Wept the Angel Voice....', Print made by William Blake, 1757-1827, British, 1793, Relief etching printed in blue with pen and black ink and watercolor on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper, Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm) and Plate: 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (23.5 x 17.1 cm), fire, flames, men, nudes, religious and mythological subject, text

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Adrià Gual / Boceto escenográfico. Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.

Painting from a cubiculum nocturnum (bedroom). Roman. Augustan era, 1st C. AD. From Villa of Agrippa Postumus at Boscotrecase, Italy. Landscape with Polyphemus. Metropolitan Museum. NY. USA.

Castanets 2001 Leslie Xuereb (b.1959/French)

THOMAS of CantimprŽ (1201-1276). Codex Granatensis: De natura rerum. 15th c. Illustration about the aromatic reed. Edition of Granada of the original of the 13th C. Gothic art. Miniature Painting. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Granada. Granada University Library.

FLORENCE, ITALY - circa July 2021. Antique manuscript sheet from a gothic book with satanic hell illustration, 16th Century copy

Fantasy illustration to represent winter showing two strange little bearded men hiking through a snowy landscape. Date: 1914

The Wild Hunt, an ancient myth in the lands of northern Europe, especially Scandinavia, is particularly found in Norse myth.

'Paisaje con ciudad árbol', 2008, Tempera on wood, 30 x 31,5 cm. Author: GUILLERMO PEREZ VILLALTA. Location: GALERIA SOLEDAD LORENZO. MADRID. SPAIN.

Dore, Gustave (1832 - 1883), illustration, from ""Divine Comedy"", by Dante Alighieri, canto 10: ""Inferno"", ""Virgil, Dante and the heretic Farinata degli Uberti"", wood engraving, coloured, 1860, private collection,

The Threads of Destiny; Los Hilos del Destino. Remedios Varo (1908-1963). Tempera on masonite. Painted in 1957. 60.5 x 35.5cm.

The dinky bird.. Parrish, Maxfield (1870-1966). Illustrations. 1905. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Nudes, Clouds, Swings, Castles & palaces, Young adults

Princess Tuvstarr is still sitting there wistfully looking into the water by Bauer, John (1882-1918) / Malmo Konstmuseum / 1913 / Sweden / Watercolour, Gouache on Paper / Mythology, Allegory and Literature / 25x25

Illustration by alphonse Mucha for the book 'Clio' (1900); by French author, Anatole France. Anatole France (1844 - 1924); was a French poet, journalist, and novelist.

The caption for this illustration reads: Here the veela holds a bow, while she climbs along the wallthat is part of Skadra's fortress. The veela had advised King Vukashin not to waste the treasures on building a fortress on insecure foundation. The illustration is from a 1921 book on Serbian myths and legends.

Mano Poderosa (The All-Powerful Hand) or Las Cinco Personas (The Five Persons). Date/Period: 19th century. Painting. Oil on metal (possibly tin-plated iron). Height: 35.2 cm (13.8 in); Width: 25.6 cm (10 in). Author: Anonymous (Mexico).

Centaur and the Hydra, 16th century, detail from the Zodiac frescoes in the dome of the old library, University of Salamanca, Spain.

Postcard of the Wiener Werkstätte No, The warwolf, Josef József by Diveky Divéky -, Artist, Wiener Werkstätte, Publishing House

The first-century B.C. Roman poet Virgil wrote in his epic poem The Aeneid that the "winged Iris, sitting on a cloud in front of a rainbow, appears to Turnus on the steps of the palace." In Greek mythology (Roman as well, Iris was honored as the goddess of the rainbow. In the tale of th Trojan War, Hera (Juno to the Romans), the queen of the gods and a deity who favored the Greeks over the Trojans, sends Iris to tell Turnus, chief of the Rutuli in Italy and the chief enemy of Aeneas once he arrives in Italy, to attack Aeneas and his band of Trojans, and that the timing is good as Aeneas has

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