Thunderstorm near St Albans, Hertfordshire Product:Framed picture View of the old quadrangle

View of the old quadrangle

and of the Batavian Islands

November 16

Gareth Edwards

rather in the manner of a policeman

Thunderstorm near St Albans, Hertfordshire Product:Framed picture View of the old quadrangleIllustration to accompany Michael Lort's letter on the effects of a thunderstorm, showing a broad monochrome arch in the clouds above a landscape of road and trees. A horse drawn cart and a foot traveller can be seen on the road. Inscribed below: 'The representation of the Heavens as seen (nr St Albans) previous to that dreadful storm of thunder lightning & rain which hapned on the 19 of June 1781'. Not signed. The painting was shown to Fellows at a