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  • A woman and a dog hurrying from an approaching storm. Gouache.
  • A crowned woman in red holding a rose-topped caduceus; she is suspended in a circle of water; a cherub blows wind from above; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.
  • A windy day at Margate: a man accidentally bumping into another man, and knocking out his last tooth. Coloured etching by W. Heath, 1810.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from a distance up river. Engraving by J. McGahey.
  • Boreas raises Orithyia aloft. Etching by P. Dupin after C. de La Fosse.
  • A man is standing on the banks of a river with a fishing line in the water, he is hunched against the very wet and windy weather. Coloured process print after J. Leech.
  • Geography: a water spout in the South Atlantic Ocean. Coloured lithograph by A. Aglio, 1824, after P. Schmidtmeyer.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from a distance up river. Engraving by C. Heath, 1825, after P. de Wint.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Engraving by R. Wallis after S. Owen.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Engraving by R. Wallis after S. Owen.
  • Four women in a room being blown by the north wind: another is leading a man with a cane out of the door. Coloured etching by J. Gillray.
  • Geography: water spouts at sea. Engraving by C. Heath after H. Salt.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with a rainbow over it, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from a distance up river. Engraving by G. Cooke, 1828, after C. Stanfield.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, seen from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Engraving by W. B. Cooke after S. Owen.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, a windy day, a rough tide running. Photomechanical reproduction by Dawsons after H. Dawson.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from a distance up river. Coloured engraving by A. H. Payne after W. French.
  • A standing woman, facing two ways, whose hair and clothes are blown to right and to left. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1971.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, from the Isle of Dogs, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground. Engraving by T. Higham, 1843, after G. Moore.
  • Royal Naval Hospital, Greenwich, with ships and rowing boats in the foreground, viewed from the Isle of Dogs. Engraving by A. Warren, 1805, after R. B. Schnebbelie.
  • Geography: water spouts at sea. Engraving.
  • A standing woman, facing two ways, whose hair and clothes are blown to right and to left. Drawing by M. Bishop, 1971.
  • A fisherwoman blown by the wind; representing Pisces in the astrological year. Lithograph after S. Tresca after L. Lafitte.
  • Two peasants hold a red robe; cherubs blow wind and Mercury rests on water below; representing a stage in the process of alchemy. Coloured etching, ca. 18th century.
  • Right, Fūjin, the Japanese wind-god; left, leaves in autumn. Colour woodcut, ca. 1872.
  • Two windmills (in the Netherlands?) Pencil drawing [by Lilly?], 1862.
  • The magi sheltering in a cave on the way to Bethlehem; here representing mercury converted into sulphur, at the moment of its fixation in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, 17th century.