Surreal Literary Illustrations

Intricate wood engravings and prints depicting surreal and fantastical scenes, featuring witches, underwater worlds, and shadowy figures in a dramatic, dark style.

Illustration from John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866. Artist: Gustave Doré

Gustave Doré (1832-1883), designer and HélioDore Pisan (1822-1890), engraver. "Hierosme induict in temptation." Illustration for Honoré de Balzac, "Les Contes Drolatiques", Paris: Société Générale de Librairie, 1855 ". Wood engraving. Paris, Maison de Balzac. 101788-19 Wood engraving, illustration of literary work, 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th 19th century, engraving

Illustration from John Milton's Paradise Lost, 1866. Artist: Gustave Doré

The snail witch. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1922. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut on Japan paper

Moonlight on the Grassy Bank Arthur B. Davies (American, 1862-1928). Moonlight on the Grassy Bank, 1920. Aquatint in color and soft ground on light green paper, Sheet: 16 x 11 3/16 in. (40.6 x 28.4 cm). American Art 1920

A SUBMARINE WORLD, BY GUSTAVE DOR. Dore, 1832 - 1883, French. Engraving for The adventures of Baron von Munchausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe, engraved by Stephane Pannemaker c. 1868. Art, Artist, romanticism, colour, color engraving.

Escalier sculpte rue Boutebrie. Dated: published 1901. Medium: wood engraving. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Auguste Lepere.

The Temptation of Saint Francis (Tentazione di San Francesco). Dated: 1612. Dimensions: book: 43.3 × 30 × 1.8 cm (17 1/16 × 11 13/16 × 11/16 in.). Medium: 1 engraved illustration. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Lino Moroni.

Perseus and Andromeda, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print Perseus is lying on a rock by the sea. Above him, Andromeda floats through the air on the winged horse Pegasus. She holds the head of Medusa in her right hand. In the waves under Perseus there is the sea monster to which Andromeda was sacrificed. paper (story of) Perseus. Pegasus, the winged horse

Lying woman on skull, Johannes Josephus Aarts, 1881 - 1934 print A woman in a robe lying on a skull. She supports her back with her hands. paper death's head, skull (symbol of Death). lying on the back with hands under the head - AA - female human figure

The act of a sitting woman a full page illustration against the poem Your name in: Zygmunt Lubicz Zaleski, on a narrow sleep and storm. Tadeusz Józef Makowski, Warsaw Paris Kraków: Centnerszwer I SKA, 1914, p. 41 arranged and decorated. Makowski, Tadeusz (1882 1932), Centnerszwer and S ka, Reiff, A. Heymann

Paul Gauguin, The Universe is Created (L'Univers est créé), c 1894 The Universe is Created (L'Univers est créé)

Fritz Reuter (1810) (1874) Low German writer and poet, Hanne Nuete un de luette Pudel, Eine Vogel, und Menschengeschichte, Platt, Low German, Low German, dialect, language, poet, poem, literary figure, graphic, humour, satire, forest, path, hiker, firs, walking stick, rucksack, mountains, Hanne Nuete 14, North Germany, 19th century, historical illustration 1868

Escena del libro Don Quichote, de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 1547-Madrid, 1616). "Lucha contra los odres de vino" Editado en Zutphen (Países Bajos), año 1930. Author: Albert Hahn jr.

Pont en Royans is a commune, Isere department. France. Drawing by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) Excursions in the Dauphiné, 1850-1860 by Adolphe Joanne (1813-1881) Le Tour du Monde 1860

Winged woman with skulls. A naked woman with wings stands with one of her feet on a branch and puts her both arms into the air. Among her two skulls.

An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon together With somewhat Concerning Severall Remarkable passages of my life that hath hapned sic since my Deliverance out of Captivity' is a book written by the English trader and sailor Robert Knox in 1681. It describes his experiences some years earlier on the South Asian island now best known as Sri Lanka and provides one of the most important contemporary accounts of 17th century Ceylonese life. Knox spent 19 years on Ceylon after being taken prisoner by King Rajasimha II.

Te Po (The Long Night). Dated: 1894/1895. Medium: woodcut printed in black and gray by Pola Gauguin in 1921. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: PAUL GAUGUIN.

Georges Rouget after Gustave Doré, Le Juif Errant, c 1856 Le Juif Errant

The white dog, illustration by Maurice Sand for Les Visions de la nuit dans les campagnes (Visions of the night in the country) by George Sand, from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 504, Volume XX, October 23, 1852.

Man in drunken stupour, surrounded by bacchic cherubs, preferring earthly pleasures in another glass of wine to heavenly promise

LIMBES / OBCHłań Portfolio: In the Dream / In a Dream pl. IV (M. 30) Redon, Odilon (1840 1916)

Byblis; Leda ou La Louange des Bienheureuses Tenebres 1898, by Pierre Louys. engraved Art Nouveau pictorial initials, by Paul-Albert Laurens, one of the central figures in Art Nouveau book illustration on the Continent.

Descent into Hell, Devil and Monsters, ca 1750, Germany, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original, Europe

'A loving God The idea is ridiculous !' Date: 1904

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

When life woke up in the depths of dark matter teka: Les Origines / Beginnings pl. I (M. 45) Redon, Odilon (1840 1916)

Walpurgisnacht: a devil sees witches on broomsticks setting off into the night. Etching by R. Girling.

A man jumping off a cliff in a dark night. Roderick, or the demon Belphegor, fleeing from his nagging wife Honesta back to hell. Belphegor. After Machiavelli. Lithograph after an illustration by Charles Martin from Jean de la Fontaines Contes et Nouvelles en Vers, Tales and Novellas in Verse, Libraire de France, Paris, 1930.

Engraving depicting the Olive Mount cutting, a 2 miles sandstone railway cutting, 4 miles from Liverpool, along the railway to Manchester, which was opened in 1830. Dated 19th century

Italian woodcut from 16th century. A woodcut is a relief printing process in which a relief-like wooden printing block is used to generate graphics

Columbine, c 1900-1930, (1925). Artist: Harry Clarke

Death: 'My irony surpasses all others!' plate 3 of 6 - 1889; Odilon Redon; French; 1840-1916 (Lithograph in black on ivory China paper laid down on ivory wove paper)'.

Scene from:"A Midsummer Night's Dream" 1832 Francis Danby (1793-1861 British) Watecolor on paper Oldham Art Gallery, Lancashire, UK

England, Thornton, Robert John, Blake, William, Illustrations of imitation of Eclogue I, Colinet's journey, a milestone marks 'LXII miles to London', recto bottom center - printed, Colinet walking along a path, shepherd's crook in hand. Along the road a milestone stone with 'LXII miles to London' on it., print, engraving, book illustration, prints, verso middle - stamped, verso middle right - stamped, Colinet, height 35 mm, width 74 mm, 1757 - 1827-08-12, print maker, printmaker, 1820 - 1821, first quarter 19th century, paper, wood engraving, Work conception, after own design by, Engels, 1768 - 1837-01-21, client

New Society dinner-card , Horses, Pegasus Greek mythology. George Bellows (1882-1925). Prints and Drawings

Artist: Sir Edward Burne-Jones Engraver:Elizabeth Burden Cupid and Psyche, Psyche is abandoned by Cupid, Pre-Raphaelite, Woodcut

Maruru (Offerings of Gratitude), from the Noa Noa Suite 1893-1894 France. Wood-block print, printed twice in yellow ocher and black inks, over a yellow ink tone block, and transferred golden-yellow, green, and orange oil-based media, some containing beeswax and conifer resin (probably pine resin), with brush and black ink and diluted yellow printing ink, on cream Japanese paper . Paul Gauguin

George Bellows, Dancing Town (The Top of the World), 1922 George Bellows (American, 1882 - 1925), Dancing Town (The Top of the World), 1922, black chalk, pen and brush and black ink, and pen and white ink with scratching out over graphite on wove paper, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon 1983.1.79

Elijah cursed the youths of Bethel. The children of Bethel destroyed by bears. Old Testament. Antique digitally colored Biblical illustration by Gustave Doré (1832-1883)

The owl's nest. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1922. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut on Japan paper

Beach Cleaners Hyman J. Warsager (American, 1909-1974). Beach Cleaners, n.d. Color lithograph on white wove paper, Sheet: 15 7/8 x 21 3/16 in. (40.3 x 53.8 cm). American Art n.d.

Escena del libro Don Quichote, de Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (Alcalá de Henares, 1547-Madrid, 1616). "Lucha con un arriero" Editado en Zutphen (Países Bajos), año 1930. Author: Albert Hahn jr.

Colinet's Journey, Milestone Marked 'LXII Miles to London' 1821 William Blake British. Colinet's Journey, Milestone Marked 'LXII Miles to London' 383664 Artist: William Blake, British, London 17571827 London, Colinet's Journey, Milestone Marked 'LXII Miles to London', from Thornton's Pastorals of Virgil, 1821, Wood engraving; second state, block: 1 3/8 x 2 7/8 in. (3.5 x 7.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1931 (31.87.20)

Faust. Artist: Eugène Delacroix (French, Charenton-Saint-Maurice 1798-1863 Paris). Author: Written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German, Frankfurt am Main 1749-1832 Weimar, Saxe-Weimar). Dimensions: Overall: 16 3/16 x 10 5/8 x 1 5/16 in. (41.1 x 27 x 3.3 cm). Publisher: Published by Charles Motte (French, 1785-1836) , Paris. Translator: Translated by Philipp Albert Stapfer (Swiss, Bern 1766-1840 Paris). Date: 1828.This is the first of a series of seventeen illustrations supplied by Delacroix for a French translation by Albert Stapfer of part one of Goethe's Faust, published in Paris in 1828. In this scene from the Prologue in Heaven, Mephistopheles, flying above the nocturnal city skyline, comments of his recent interview with the Lord, "I like to see the Old Man now and then, / and take good care to keep on speaking terms.". Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The Triumph of Art, painting by Leon Bonnat in the Arts room, Hotel de Ville. Paris, France. Europe. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

Men's head and figures in the rain. In the middle the head of a man in the rain. Above him fog friends. On either side his head is touched by a female figure with rays around the head. The two feminine figures are connected to each other with a bow of hair.

Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. La Tauromaquia (Bullfighting). Recklessness of Martincho in the Plaza de Zaragoza (Temeridad de Martincho en la Plaza de Zaragoza). Number 18. Etching. San Fernando Royal Academy of Fine Arts. Madrid, Spain.

The mole. Ernst Barlach (Germany, 1870-1938). Germany, 1922. Prints; woodcuts. Woodcut on Japan paper

The Lenape come to the Place of Caves. The Lenape also called the Leni Lenape,Lenni Lenape and Delaware people,are an indigenous people of the Northeastern Woodlands, who live in the United States and Canada. Their historical territory included present-day northeastern Delaware, New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania along the Delaware River watershed, New York City, western Long Island, and the Lower Hudson Valley. From the Book ' The myths of the North American Indians ' by Lewis Spence, Published in London by George G. Harrap & Company in 1912

Labam, a figure in mythology of India, sits in her throne chair at night, her presence lighting up her father's realm at night.

William Marshall Craig, ca. 1788-1828, British, Macbeth and the Apparition of the Armed Head, ca. 1820. Brown ink with gray wash and watercolor over graphite on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige wove paper.

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

Image of the painted walls and the ceiling in the front room of the Huis Kromme Nieuwegracht 80 in Utrecht.

Mephistopheles by Eugene Delacroix, lithograph, 1828, 1798-1863, Private Collection

The Troll (Der Alb) Ernst Barlach (German, 1870-1938). The Troll (Der Alb), 1912. Lithograph on wove buff paper, Image: 8 x 10 13/16 in. (20.3 x 27.5 cm). European Art 1912

Mars Jahrersregent. "Mars as the year of the year. Projects for the" eternal calendar in paintings ", part II (Immerwährender Bilderkalender); Thoma, Hans (1839-1924); 1901 (1911-00-00-1911-00-00 ); Was downloaded from the Muse of the National Museum in Warsaw; graphic / printing of P Aski / Algrafia; products from Wzkien / Paper / Brown paper; height 53.0 cm, width 41.6 cm; gr. /5 MNW; all rightsMars (mitol.), Schlesisches Museum der Bildenen Künste (Wrocław - 1880-1945) - collection, astrology, illustrations, calendars, seasons, projects

Illustration by Gustave Dore for 'Le Capitaine Fracasse' by Pierre Théophile Gautier (1811 - 1872)French, Writer, poet, painter, art critic. Gautier was a defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and remains a point of reference for many subsequent literary traditions such as Parnassianism, Symbolism, Decadence and Modernism. Captain Fracasse (Le Capitaine Fracasse) is an 1863 novel by the French writer Théophile Gautier. It is an adventure novel set in the seventeenth century.

Charlemagne's Vision, by Dore. 19th cent. engraving. FRANCE.

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

Gustave Doré; Satan's Flight Through Chaos from John Milton's Paradise Lost; Black and White Engraving

'St George and the Dragon', 1930s.Artist: Birket Foster

Kay and Gerda. The Snow Queen. Illustration from The Pink Fairy Book by Andrew Lang, Ford, Henry Justice (1860-1941)

Memory of Meijer de Haan 1896-1897 France. Wood-block print printed twice in black and brown ink, with dry brush and gray and ocher watercolor, on cream Japanese paper . Paul Gauguin

Elm Angel, Eric Ravilious (London, England, 1903 - 1942) 1930

Magical wooden head, 1952, Wellington, by E Mervyn Taylor. Gift of the New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts, 1953.

Gustave Doré; Satan Smitten by Michael from John Milton's Paradise Lost; Black and White Engraving

Gustave Doré; Black and White Engraving; Satan in Council from John Milton's Paradise Lost

Puck, also known as Robin Goodfellow, is a mischievous but generally good-natured sprite : he has equivalents in the folklore of most cultures.

press/media magazines ""Jugend"" Munich and Leipzig 2. volume number 7 1897 drawing by Josef Rudolf Witzel ""Abend"",

Narcissus rushed sword in hand to help his companion, vintage engraving. Narcissus Nicaise perilous adventures in the Congo. Narcissus rushed sword in hand to help his companion, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyages, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657255

ESCENA DEL QUIJOTE - SIGLO XX - FOTOGRAFIA EN BLANCO Y NEGRO - AÑOS 60. Author: SEGRELLES JOSE. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. DON QUIJOTE.

An engraving depicting the cutting on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway line. Dated 19th century

"How are you" said one. "How are you" returned the other. "Well!" said the first. "Old scratch has got his own at last, hey" Scene from a Christmas Carol

Engraving depicting scenes from the Siege of Syracuse. The siege by the Roman Republic took place in 214-212 BC, at the end of which the Magna Graecia Hellenistic city of Syracuse, located on the east coast of Sicily, fell. Dated 20th century

Work entitled Landscape At Sea by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch (1863-1944). This work was produced in 1899.

Gustave Doré; The Fox and the Grapes from Jean de la Fontaine's Fables; Black and White Engraving

FOTOGRAFIA BLANCO Y NEGRO AÑOS 60.

'Tell Me Where is Fancy Bread', 1895. Artist: Unknown

A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over" - "Let Us Prey" Thomas Nast (American, 1840-1902). A Group of Vultures Waiting for the Storm to "Blow Over" - "Let Us Prey," 1871. Wood engraving on newsprint paper, Image: 13 11/16 x 11 1/4 in. (34.8 x 28.5 cm). American Art 1871

Help! Help! Jean, vintage engraved illustration. Jules Verne Cesar Cascabel, 1890.

Mephistopheles Flies Over a City (from Goethe's "Faust") 1825-27 Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863 French) Lithograph

Bird Migration. The lantern of the Eddystone lighthouse built on the Stone 13 miles South-east of Polperro, Cornwall, England, being used to observe migrating birds. This practice began in the Autumn of 1878. The pun on Edison's name in the caption is because in September 1878 Thomas Alva Edison said he would invent a safe, mild and cheap electric light which would supersede gaslight in millions of dwellings. The Eddystone light was oil. Cartoon by Charles Samuel Keene (1823-1891) from Punch.

Huck Finn Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975). Huck Finn, 1936. Lithograph, Sheet: 20 1/8 x 24 in. (51.1 x 61 cm). American Art 1936

Don Quixote sick in bed. Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. Old XIX century engraving illustration by Gustave Dore

An elf kisses a fairy princess' hair after serenading her on a lute by moonlight. Handcoloured woodblock print by Edmund Evans after an illustration by Richard Doyle from In Fairyland, a series of Pictures from the Elf World, Longman, London, 1870.

Photo collection Government information service. painting. undated

Gustave Doré; The Spare Bed at the "Crocodile" from Ernest L'epine's Croquemitaine; Black and White Engraving

Engraving depicting a mirage being observed just before sunrise. Dated 19th Century

Tahitian Series: Worship, 1893-94. Paul Gauguin (French, 1848-1903). Woodcut;

Physical strength and shrewdness, painting by Joszi Arpad Koppay (1859-1927), woodcut by Richard Bong (1853-1935) from Moderne Kunst (Modern Art), illustrated magazine published by Richard Bong, 1893, Year VII, No 9, Spring Issue, Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig.

Illustration by Gustave Dore (1832-1883) for Dante's Inferno, the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Canto, Inferno, Hell, Paradise, Angels, Damnation, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Generation of Boaz and Ruth by Salvador Dali, 1904-1989

Plate 13 from the 'Disparates': A Way of Flying. Artist: Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes) (Spanish, Fuendetodos 1746-1828 Bordeaux). Dimensions: Plate: 9 5/8 × 13 7/8 in. (24.5 × 35.3 cm)Sheet: 13 3/16 × 19 1/16 in. (33.5 × 48.4 cm). Series/Portfolio: Los Disparates (Los Proverbios). Date: ca. 1816-23 (published 1864).From the posthumous first edition published by the Academia de San Fernando in Madrid in 1864 under the title 'Los Proverbios'. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

The snake charmer. Okali brought his students a black hen, vintage engraving. The snake charmer. Okali brought his students a black hen, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657231

The belated witch flies on her broom over the roofs of the city, c. 1840, Germany, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from an original of the period, Europe

Postcard of the Wiener Werkstätte No, Christmas card, Arnold Nechansky -, Artist, Wiener Werkstätte, Publishing House

Window, Zaragoza (night effect), vintage engraved illustration. Le Tour du Monde, Travel Journal, (1872).

There he saw the last of the Gairfowl, standing up on the Allalonestone, all alone. Illustration by Warwick Goble. From The Water Babies, published 1922.

Enid tends Geraint, by Gustave Dore, from Idylls of the King, (1832-1883), USA, Illinois, Chicago, Newberry Library

illustration by Max Ernst, for 'Misfortunes of the Immortals'. by Paul Éluard. This image illustrates the surrealist poem by Éluard 1922

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