Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema
'The Inundation of The Biesbosch in 1421"
"Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted [the top image] in the 1800s,
after a true story from 1421 when a flood carried off a cat and a cradle.
The cat jumped from side to side on the cradle to keep it upright..."
'The Inundation of The Biesbosch in 1421"
"Lawrence Alma-Tadema painted [the top image] in the 1800s,
after a true story from 1421 when a flood carried off a cat and a cradle.
The cat jumped from side to side on the cradle to keep it upright..."
John Everett Millais: 'A Flood', 1870
Images found at My Own Thoughts, via A Polar Bear's Tale [as of 2016, both sources have undergone linkrot].
A hat tip to reader Ceridwen for the name of the artist for the second image. He notes that the painting "represents an incident following the flooding of Sheffield UK after a reservoir burst in 1864."