Lot and his family flee Sodom as it burns; Lot's wife faces the terrible scene, aghast. Coloured lithograph after J. Martin.

Lot's wife looks back at the flames pouring from Heaven upon Sodom; Lot and his daughters go on ahead. Engraving by R. Sadeler after M. de Vos, 1583.

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