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Windmills

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  • A miller sits on a donkey which is being pulled by the reins and pushed from behind to make it move. Lithograph by S. Baptiste, 1828.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • The Royal Observatory, Greenwich Hill, top, and the view of Greenwich and London seen from the hill, below. Coloured engraving, 1723.
  • Crimean War: French ambulance men carrying the English wounded before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in a village square with the assistance of a monkey. Pen drawing.
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    A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.

    | Date: 1800-1899 | Reference: 45431i
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    After attacking a windmill believed to be a giant, Don Quixote and his horse Rocinante lie on the ground, while Sancho Panza rides to their rescue. Engraving by C.T. Warren, 1796, after R. Corbould.

    Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831. | Date: [1796] | Reference: 3005078i
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    Architecture: section of a windmill. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].

    Lucotte, Jacques-Raymond, approximately 1733-1804. | Date: [between 1700 and 1799] | Reference: 44146i
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    Crimean War: French ambulance men carrying the English wounded before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.

    | Reference: 21041i
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    Two windmills (in the Netherlands?) Pencil drawing [by Lilly?], 1862.

    | Date: 1862 | Reference: 47585i
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