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  • The deluge. Mezzotint by J. Martin.
  • The deluge. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • The surviving leave the ark after the deluge. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
  • Noah burning offerings on an altar after the end of the deluge. Colour lithograph by L. Gruner after N. Consoni after Raphael.
  • A woman is swept away by the tempestuous deluge; a small company of people on a hill try to save themselves; a serpent slithers beside them. Mezzotint after J. Martin.
  • Reliquiae diluvianae; or, observations on the organic remains contained in caves, fissures, and diluvial gravel, and on other geological phenomena, attesting the action of an universal deluge / By the Rev. William Buckland.
  • The theory of the earth : containing an account of the original of the earth, and of all the general changes which it hath already undergone, or is to undergo till the consummation of all things. The two fisrt [sic] books, concerning the deluge, and concerning paradise.
  • A huge angel stands atop Noah's ark, its back turned towards the entwined mass of drowning creatures; people pray and one holds her baby aloft; serpents tussle among the dying. Etching by L. Friedrich after W. Kaulbach.
  • Arca Noë, in tres libros digesta, quorum I. De rebus quæ ante diluvium, II. De iis, quæ ipso diluvio ejusque duratione, III. De iis, quæ post diluvium a Noëmo gesta sunt, quæ omnia novâ methodo, nec non summa argumentorum varietate, explicantur, et demonstrantur / [Athanasius Kircher].

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