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  • Jupiter orders Notus (the south wind) to flood the Earth: as the water rises, people try to escape. Engraving by L. Garreau after A. van Diepenbeeck.
  • 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 French hospital for wounded soldiers, World War I: 8.30 am, nurses arrive for work in the rain, then change into their uniforms. Colour lithograph after L. Ibels, 1916.
  • The Midlothian campaign of 1879-1880: William Gladstone runs to relieve an old woman of her burden; representing his intention to relieve Midlothian of the burden caused by fraudulent voting and land laws. Wood engraving by A. Mantrop, 1879/1880.