Images Dated 8th October 2003

Raining cats and dogs

Raining cats and dogs. Historical artwork of cats, dogs and pitchforks raining down on people in a town street. The saying raining cats and dogs is used when referring to a heavy downpour of rain. The first recorded use of the phrase raining pitchforks was in 1815 and has largely fallen out of use. This version of George Cruickshank's 1835 etching Very Unpleasant Weather... Raining Cats, Dogs, Pitchforks was published in Picture Magazine in 1894

© SHEILA TERRY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

Smiling Woman and a Pack of Cigarettes

© CSA-Printstock

464415964, Colored Background, Cute, Illustration And Painting, Pop Art, Women

Merry Christmas with trees

© CSA-Printstock

533646963, Colored Background, Fir Tree, Greet, Illustration, No People, Pop Art