Hello! Sorry for commenting on such an old post, but I just found your posts on illustrations and read them with interest. These illustrations by Kittelsen are really stunning, and very very atmospheric. It's particularly interesting that the plague is personified by a woman who is then depicted very similar to the traditional personifications of death. I think in Edgar Allen Poe's novel it was a male Plague (King Plague), was it not?
Thanks for sharing these!

(As I am very interested in illustrations I added you to my f-list, I hope you don't mind...)