Natural disasters: lightning, earthquake, and a tornado destroying buildings. Engraving.

Date:
[between 1600 and 1699]
Reference:
47026i
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Description

Left, a man being thrown from his horse by a lightening bolt. Right foreground an earthquake. Right background, people and objects being swept up into the air by a tornado, buildings being taken apart by the wind

Publication/Creation

[Germany?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1600 and 1699]

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with etching ; image and border 17 x 26.7 cm

Lettering

Die Krafft des Wetter-Schlags.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47026i

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