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A young barefoot shepherdess and a little girl take refuge near a shrine during a storm. Lithograph by Z. Belliard after H. Coupin.

A storm over a Dutch landscape. Etching after Rembrandt van Rijn.

Grace Darling rowing out to sea in a furious storm. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after C.J. Staniland.

An episode in 'Jack Sheppard' by  W.H. Ainsworth: Owen Wood, on the river Thames in a stormy night, rescues the child Jack Sheppard. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1839.

A woman and a dog hurrying from an approaching storm. Gouache.

A storm at sea, with a sailing ship being wrecked on rocks. Etching by Claude Lorrain, ca. 1635-1640.

Christ and the apostles in the storm on the sea of Galilee. Etching by J. Fittler after Rembrandt.

Lot and his family flee Sodom as it burns; Lot's wife faces the terrible scene, aghast. Coloured lithograph after J. Martin.

A storm in a wild and rocky landscape: lightning flashes while a man drives a a coach and four hourses through the darkness. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds the elder after G. Morland, 1798.

The fall of Babylon; Cyrus the Great defeating the Chaldean army. Mezzotint by J. Martin, 1831, after himself, 1819.

A mother, her son, and their cat watching a storm through the window of a cottage. Engraving.

Women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.

Niobe and her children in despair as Apollo aims an arrow at them. Engraving by W. Sharp and S. Smith after R. Wilson.

A Dutch landscape: fields, a farmer in an oxcart, and, in the centre foreground, a dead tree. Etching by W. Baillie, 1760.

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A mother, her son, and their cat watching a storm through the window of a cottage. Engraving.

A woman and a dog hurrying from an approaching storm. Gouache.

Women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.

Niobe and her children in despair as Apollo aims an arrow at them. Engraving by W. Sharp and S. Smith after R. Wilson.

A Dutch landscape: fields, a farmer in an oxcart, and, in the centre foreground, a dead tree. Etching by W. Baillie, 1760.