Lightning Collection (page 3)

A Balloon struck by lightning near Chicago, Illinois, USA, 1891. Illustration in Le Petit Journal, 1891

Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1655. Artist: Michel de Marolles
Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1655. A plate from Michel de Marolless Tableaux du Temple des Muses, Paris, 1655. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Enceladus buried underneath Mount Etna, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Fround in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

The Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) protect a ship, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
The Dioscuri (Castor and Pollux) protect a ship, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Semele, 1615. Artist: Leonard Gaultier
Semele, 1615. In Greek mythology, Semele, daughter of Cadmus and Harmonia, was the mortal mother of Dionysus by Zeus in one of his two parallel origin myths

St Francis receiving the Stigmata, c1430-1451. Artist: Stephan Lochner
St Francis receiving the Stigmata, c1430-1451

The Red Lightning, 1919. Artist: Ignaty Nivinsky
The Red Lightning, 1919

French anti-Prussian cartoon, 1871. Cartoon from Actualite published during the Franco-Prussian war (1870-1871). From a private collection

Franklins kite experiment, c1752, (1869). Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American scientist, statesman, diplomat, author, printer and publisher

Electricity, c1850. Various aspects of electricity and electrical apparatus, including attraction and repulsion (1, 2), Leyden jar and condenser (6, 7)

Thunderbolt or lightning, 1508. A man sheltering under a tree struck by lightning or a thunderbolt. From Margarita philosophica (The Pearl of Philosophy) by Gregor Reisch. (Basel, 1508)

Landscape with Lightning, 1660s. Artist: Gaspard Dughet
Landscape with Lightning, 1660s. Found in the collection of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg

Hittite relief of the weather-god Teshub with lightning. In the collection at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin

Macbeth and the Witches, 1835. Artist: Joseph Anton Kock
Macbeth and the Witches, 1835. The witches flying through the sky riding goats and broomsticks are holding up the crown which Macbeth covets. Scene from Shakespeares play, first performed c1606

Ezekiels vision of a chariot in the sky and a hand in the clouds holding out a book to him, 1804. Ezekiel was one of the four great Hebrew prophets

The Plague of Rain and Hail, one of the Seven Plagues of Egypt, c1759-c1789. Artist: James Caldwall
The Plague of Rain and Hail, one of the Seven Plagues of Egypt, c1759-c1789. From the Bible (Exodus 9.18). After the French designer and engraver Clement Pierre Marillier (1740-1808)

A Rakes Progress, Plate 4, June 25, 1735. Creator: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress, Plate 4, June 25, 1735

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