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  • A thunder storm approaching a farm, the workers moving the animals into shelter. Engraving by B. Crivellari after M. Ricci.
  • Grace Darling rowing out to sea in a furious storm. Colour wood engraving by E. Evans after C.J. Staniland.
  • Colón, Panama: tarmacadamed street with storm sewer; residents shown in houses and on the street, with horse and cart in the foreground. Photograph, 1911.
  • A frightened man running through the sky in a storm treads on the sharp point of a church steeple. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A frightened man running through the sky in a storm treads on the sharp point of a church steeple. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A man in a darkened theatre or cinema coughs and sneezes over other members of the audience, starting an epidemic of colds. Colour lithograph after R. Storm Petersen, 194-.
  • A young barefoot shepherdess and a little girl take refuge near a shrine during a storm. Lithograph by Z. Belliard after M.-Ph. Coupin de La Couperie.
  • The Christ Child sleeps as a bridegroom in the believer's heart, making it safe as a bride from wind and storm raging outside. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • The Christ Child sleeps as a bridegroom in the believer's heart, making it safe as a bride from wind and storm raging outside. Engraving by A. Wierix, ca. 1600.
  • A storm of thunder and lightning, rain, wind and floods threaten an ancient town on the sea-coast; representing conflict. Engraving by S. à Bolswert after Sir P.P. Rubens.
  • The First Lord of the Admiralty, Lord Minto, is thrown overboard by Lord Melbourne, Lord Palmerston and Lord Duncannon during a storm. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1838.
  • Putti deprive a bird of air in a vacuum experiment, one plays at billiards, another plays with magnetised keys, while outside a storm rages: representing physics. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • 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 ghost of Ravia, dressed in white with blood on her dress, appears to her husband Cazem during a storm at night, in front of Gothic ruins, and asks him to avenge her murder. Coloured aquatint, ca. 1810.
  • The word 'AIDS' in Hindi (in red) above the black silhouette of a couple lit from the side by forked lightning from a storm brewing up behind them representing the dangers of practising unprotected sex and contracting AIDS. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • The storming of the Bastille on the 14 July 1789. Line engraving with etching after H. Singleton.
  • A woman storming out to the dentist after having an argument with her husband; he retorts that he hopes her tongue is fixed also. Wood engraving by R. Cleaver, 1894.
  • A smiling sun with hearts and hands with thumbs pointing up to diagrams illustrating activities in which AIDS is not transmitted including a hand shake, two women sharing food, a man receiving blood transfusion and a couple kissing; also featuring a storm cloud and hands pointing to crossed out diagrams of a couple sharing a needle and a couple having unprotected sex; an advertisement for illustrated cards developed by L'AIPS and Le Kiosque in association with Marie de Paris and EMIPS. Colour lithograph.
  • A stormy sea with three seagulls. Gouache, 18--.
  • Section of the Thames embankment in 1867: the position of the low-level sewer is shown. Wood engraving.
  • A thunderstorm, with rain beating down on travellers in a mountain pass. Engraving by H. C. Shenton after L. Clennell.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • An obese midwife on her way to a labour in the early hours of the morning. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson, 1811.
  • The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
  • Cain kills Abel under a stormy sky. Wood engraving by H. Pisan after G. Dore.
  • A Dutch landscape: fields, a farmer in an oxcart, and, in the centre foreground, a dead tree. Etching by W. Baillie, 1760.
  • Snowflake
  • Snowflake
  • Peter walks on water towards Christ. Etching.