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Shell Mask Gorget
Late Mississippian
1500–1700
Boxed Lightning
Ce (Cecilia) Roser
2012
The Lightning Testimonies
Amar Kanwar
2007
Lightning and the Rock
Nonggirrnga Marawili
2014
Lightning and the Rock
Nonggirrnga Marawili
2014
Lightning and the Rock
Nonggirrnga Marawili
2014
Lightning and the Rock
Nonggirrnga Marawili
2014
Tree Struck by Lightning
Xanthus Russell Smith
1861
[Spiral of Lightning in a Thunderstorm]
Charles Moussette
May 12, 1886
The Lightning that Struck Rufo Barcliff
Carroll Cloar
1955
The Plum Blossom that Flew on Lightning from Chikushino
Utagawa Yoshiharu
1857
Lightning Research
Arthur d'Arazien
1960s
Oak Struck by Lightning, Badger, 1856.
Alfred Capel Cure
1856
A Storm
Georgia O'Keeffe
1922
June 30 9 P.M.
1900s–1930s
Tempest
Angélique Moitte
ca. 1770
The Three Trees, after Rembrandt
Captain William E. Baillie
1758
The Three Trees, after Rembrandt
Captain William E. Baillie
1758
The Fifth Plague of Egypt (Liber Studiorum, part III, plate 16)
Joseph Mallord William Turner
June 10, 1808
The Tragedy of a Nest
Elbridge Kingsley
1860–1915
Varsha
Ranjani Shettar
2012
A Rake's Progress, Plate 4
William Hogarth
June 25, 1735
Commemorating the Dedication of the Engineering Societies' New Building
Victor David Brenner
1907
Franklin's Experiment, June 1752 – Demonstrating the identity of Lightning and Electricity, from which he invented the Lightning Rod
Currier & Ives
1876
Hooton's Lightning (The Child Wills the Accident to Happen so the Rescue May Begin)
Peter Nadin
1991–92
Fall of the Giants, Jupiter in the clouds overhead striking the Giants with lightning
Girolamo Fagiuoli
ca. 1539–49
War club
Pawnee, Native American
ca. 1800
Bellerophon and Pegasus
Paul Manship
1930
Small jadeitite axe
Cretan
5th–4th millennium BCE
Amoghasiddhi, the Transcendent Buddha of the North
Western Tibet
late 10th–early 11th century
Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata Purana
India (Madhya Pradesh, Malwa)
ca. 1650
Shield
He Nupa Wanica/ Joseph No Two Horns
ca. 1885
Sugar Bowl
John C. Moore
1850
Milk Pot
John C. Moore
1850
Teakettle
John C. Moore
1850
The Progress of the Century – The Lightning Steam Press. The Electric Telegraph. The Locomotive. The Steamboat.
Currier & Ives
1876
Drawing XIII
Georgia O'Keeffe
1916–17
Scene from The Illustrated Sutra of Past and Present Karma (Kako genzai e-inga-kyō; Matsunaga Version)
Japan
late 13th century
Destruction of the "Tanjore" by Lightning off Ceylon
George Baxter
1844
Thunderstorm on May 12, 1886, Spiral of Lightning
Charles Moussette
May 12, 1886