Element Collection

Diagram showing Geocentric system of universe, 1539. Artist: Petrus Apianus
Diagram showing Geocentric system of universe, 1539. Geocentric (earth-centred) system of universe showing Aristotles 4 elements surrounded by sphere of fixed stars, spheres of planets

Observation balloon, U.S.A., 9 Dec 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Observation balloon, U.S.A., 9 Dec 1917 (date created or published later). An observation balloon ready to be launched over German trenches in Europe in World War I.

German observation balloon, between 1914 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
German observation balloon, between 1914 and c1915.

Still Life with a Rifle, Hare and Bird ("Fire"), 1720. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Still Life with a Rifle, Hare and Bird ("Fire"), 1720

Still Life with a Spaniel Chasing Ducks ("Water"), 1719. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Still Life with a Spaniel Chasing Ducks ("Water"), 1719

Still Life of Fruits and Vegetables ("Earth"), 1721. Creator: Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Still Life of Fruits and Vegetables ("Earth"), 1721

Barren Island, in the Bay of Bengal, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Barren Island, in the Bay of Bengal, 1858. This island...north-east of the Andaman Islands...was visited by the Hon. East India Company's steam-frigate Semiramis...and the British ensign was

Morning Air, 1911. Creator: Johan Axel Gustav Acke
Morning Air, 1911

Juno or Allegory of the Element Air. Creator: Georg Engelhard Schroder
Juno or Allegory of the Element Air, Unknown date

The Yumoto Sulfur Spring, Nikko, 1896. Creator: Kobayashi Kiyochika
The Yumoto Sulfur Spring, Nikko, 1896. From Sketches of Famous Places in Japan

Bronze Ringed Element with Crowned Uraeus Figure, Late Period-Ptolemaic Period (711-30 BCE). Creator: Unknown
Bronze Ringed Element with Crowned Uraeus Figure, Late Period-Ptolemaic Period (711-30 BCE)

Fire, c1588. Creator: Jacques de Gheyn II
Fire, c1588. From The Four Elements, pl. 4

Air, c1588. Creator: Jacques de Gheyn II
Air, c1588. From The Four Elements, pl. 1

Earth, c1588. Creator: Jacques de Gheyn II
Earth, c1588. From The Four Elements, pl. 3

The Four Elements, 1588. Creator: Jacob Matham
The Four Elements, 1588. Series: Mythological Subjects

The Crater of Mount Etna - from a drawing by S. Read, 1860. Creator: M. Jackson
The Crater of Mount Etna - from a drawing by S. Read, 1860. Etna, celebrated from the most remote antiquity for its magnitude and its volcanic eruptions

Ceres or Allegory of the Element Earth. Creator: Georg Engelhard Schroder
Ceres or Allegory of the Element Earth

Amphitrite or Allegory of the Element Water, early-mid 18th century. Creator: Georg Engelhard Schroder
Amphitrite or Allegory of the Element Water, early-mid 18th century

Air. Creator: Unknown
Air, unknown date

Earth. Creator: Unknown
Earth, unknown date

Fire. Creator: Unknown
Fire, unknown date

Elementa geometriae, 1482. Creator: Unknown
Elementa geometriae, 1482. Page from Euclid's "Elements", a mathematical treatise consisting of 13 books attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Euclid c300 BC

Summer, afternoon and sky; the four seasons, times of day and elements, 1797. Creator: Jacob Cats
Summer, afternoon and sky; the four seasons, times of day and elements, 1797

View of the Solfatara at Pozzuoli, outside Naples, c.1611. Creator: Gerard ter Borch I
View of the Solfatara at Pozzuoli, outside Naples, c.1611

Frontispiece, from Élements, n.d. Creator: Ange-Laurent de La Live de Jully
Frontispiece, from Elements, n.d

Part of air compressor at Ellison Hoist, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910. Creator: Unknown
Part of air compressor at Ellison Hoist, Lead Homestake Mine, between 1900 and 1910

Rococo Fountain with Lovers and the Four Elements. Creator: Johann Esaias Nilson
Rococo Fountain with Lovers and the Four Elements

The Four Elements, 1588. Creator: Jacob Matham
The Four Elements, 1588

The Four Elements, probably 1588. Creator: Jacob Matham
The Four Elements, probably 1588

Air. Creator: Jan van de Velde II
Air

Parmi les astres (L'Air), c.1905. Creator: Adrien Moreau-Neret
Parmi les astres (L'Air), c.1905. Among the stars (the Air)

Parmi les astres (L'Air), c.1905. Creator: Adrien Moreau-Neret
Parmi les astres (L'Air), c.1905. Among the stars (the Air), detail

Sketch for dining room in the Hotel de Ville in Paris: Water, Earth, Air, between 1891 and 1892

Dessein d'une Fontaine orné avec les quatre Elements (Design for a Fountain...), c. 1755/1760
Dessein d'une Fontaine orne avec les quatre Elements (Design for a Fountain Decorated with the Four Elements), c. 1755/1760

Remains at Gateshead - Site of the Explosion, 1854. Creator: Unknown
Remains at Gateshead - Site of the Explosion, 1854. View of...the Ruins of the Bonded Warehouses...with St. Mary's Church in the background

Design for a Gilt Leather Panel, ca. 1660-70. Creator: Anon
Design for a Gilt Leather Panel, ca. 1660-70

A Huntsman with a Dead Hare and a Dog (Study for "Terra"), 1590/95. Creator: Jacques de Gheyn II
A Huntsman with a Dead Hare and a Dog (Study for "Terra"), 1590/95

Georgia road sign, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Georgia road sign. ['Prepare to Meet Thy God and Free Air']

Fire, plate four from The Four Elements, 1622. Creator: Jan van de Velde II
Fire, plate four from The Four Elements, 1622

Water, plate three from The Four Elements, 1622. Creator: Jan van de Velde II
Water, plate three from The Four Elements, 1622

Air, plate two from The Four Elements, 1622. Creator: Jan van de Velde II
Air, plate two from The Four Elements, 1622

Earth, plate one from The Four Elements, 1622. Creator: Jan van de Velde II
Earth, plate one from The Four Elements, 1622

Air, ca. 1748. Creator: Jean Daullé
Air, ca. 1748. After Francois Boucher

Omnia Vincit Amor, or The Power of Love in the Three Elements, 1809. Creator: Benjamin West
Omnia Vincit Amor, or The Power of Love in the Three Elements, 1809

Lead chamber for production of sulphuric acid, 1866. Also known as Oil of Vitriol or H2S04, sulphuric acid was one of the most important industrial chemicals

Equilibrium and movement of the air, c1851. The effects of pneumatics and barometric pressure underwater and in the air, showing ballooning, a diving bell, divers in diving suits, an air gun

Daltons table of atomic symbols, 1835. A table of atomic symbols from a lecture delivered by the English chemist John Dalton (1766-1844) at the Manchester Mechanics Institution, 19 October 1835

Balloon leaving from Gare du Nord, Paris, Franco-Prussian War, 1870
Balloon Ville d Orleans after leaving Gare du Nord at night 24 November 1870, during siege of Paris during Franco-Prussian War

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