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  • Menthollets : amazingly effective sweets, specially prepared to protect you in changeable weather / made by R. Barnett & Co. Limited.
  • A man smoking and reading the paper fully clothed in a hip-bath; self-help hydrotherapy in hot weather. Wood engraving.
  • Have you tried our delicious sausages? : They're good! : All our meats kept in cold storage in hot weather.
  • People out walking and riding in extremely windy weather on top of the Brecon Beacons. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.
  • Meteorology: various effects of the weather, from summer calm (left) to winter storms (right). Mixed method engraving after A.M. Perrot.
  • People out walking and riding in extremely windy weather on top of the Brecon Beacons. Wood engraving by O.T., 1860.
  • Crimean War: a soldier collapses during a roll-call in snowy weather. Mezzotint by W.T. Hulland, 1882, after E. Thompson, 1874.
  • God, aided by an angel, a serpent and Death, inflicts calamitous weather upon the Israelites. Engraving by A. Mochetti after G. della Valle.
  • A seller of woollen materials for warmth in cold weather displays samples of his wares hanging from a bamboo pole. Watercolour by Zhou Pei Qun, ca. 1890.
  • A fat, bald and half-dressed woman fans herself with her smock in hot weather while her maid comes to attend her. Coloured etching by Giles Grinagain, 1802.
  • A man in religious dress is looking up to the weather vane on the top of the church which has the head of a priest for decoration. Etching.
  • The Royal Hospital, Chelsea: looking from the Surrey side of the river in stormy weather. Coloured engraving, 1815, by W. Woolnoth after J.P. Neale after W.G. Moss.
  • The Marquess of Londonderry (Earl Vane) as a weather-vane; the north and south poles have been replaced by "radicalism" and "Toryism". Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1843.
  • 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.
  • God's protection in various forms of distress: the angel of the Lord guides Moses and Aaaron who lead the people on a journey; good weather after a thunderstorm; a man prays for a doctor to be called to a sick bed. Etching.
  • Top left, gamebirds watching in safety while hunters and poachers shoot each other; top right, a graveyard for colonial institutions in Africa; bottom left, spoonbills (birds) made of teapots and spoons; bottom centre, two men talking about a hen and some ducklings; bottom right, a weather vane in the form of a man holding a gun. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1831.
  • A prognostication everlasting of right good effect, fruitfully augmented by the author, containing plaine, briefe, pleasant, chosen rules to iudge the weather by the sunne, moone, starres, comets, rainbow, thunder, clowdes, with other extraordinary tokens, not omitting the aspects of planets, with a briefe iudgement for ever, of plentie, lacke, sicknes, dearth, warres, &c. opening also many naturall causes worthie to be knowne ... / corrected and augmented by Thomas Digges his sonne.
  • Weathered granite rock-outcrop on Dartmoor, Devon.
  • Weathered granite rock-outcrop on Dartmoor, Devon.
  • A man is looking out of the window through a telescope as young children play on a rocking horse. Etching.
  • Lightning striking a rural building during a storm: onlookers react in terror. Engraving, 16--.
  • Meteorology: a chart of air pressure and temperature at Manchester, for the years 1807-1809. Coloured engraving by J. Girtin, 1810, after T. Hanson.
  • A storm over a Dutch landscape. Etching after Rembrandt van Rijn.
  • Astronomy: the Aurora Borealis, with a reindeer-drawn sledge in the foreground. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • The climate of London, deduced from meteorological observations, made in the Metropolis, and at various places around it / by Luke Howard.
  • Snow falls on to the head of a passer-by as it is shovelled off a roof, causing his hat to cover his eyes. Etching by Richard Dighton, 1821.
  • Geography: monsoons at sea, with rain. Coloured wood engraving by C. Whymper.
  • Astronomy: a sailing ship at the North Cape, Norway, sailing under the midnight sun. Engraving, 1825.
  • Meteorology: the seasons, autumn. Engraving by A. Collaert after H. Bol, 1585.
  • A thunderstorm, with rain beating down on travellers in a mountain pass. Engraving by H. C. Shenton after L. Clennell.