Photo of a 1710 map of Clerkenwell, London showing a windmill at the New River Pool
- REXW-IMG-05-270
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- 1710 (copy)
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
"From Crace [?]. A later edition of Morgan's Map c 1710".
Unknown photographer
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Photo of a 1710 map of Clerkenwell, London showing a windmill at the New River Pool
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
"From Crace [?]. A later edition of Morgan's Map c 1710".
Unknown photographer
Adolf Erik Geete, Swedish Soldier
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Image from the National Museum of Finland, Helsinki.
His notebook contains architectural drawings of mills, found in 'REXW-FIN-526'.
Geete, A
Engraving of a windmill (3/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed the parts which are lettered L, M, N and O on the drawing as "les ailes". RW notes that these originals can be copied.
Prévost, Benoît-Louis (1747-1804), engraver
Structural drawing of a windmill interior (5/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Original title reads, "OEconomie Rustique, Moulin a exprimer l'Huile des Graines". Rex Wailes' note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1762" and then lists the labelled parts A to H in French, " A. & B. l'arbre fournant, C. le rouet. D. rouet horizontal, D./F. l'arbre vertical, E. la lanterne, G. un rouet, H. le gross arbre horizontal".
Unknown artist
Structural drawing of a windmill interior (6/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A second/cleaner copy of REXW-IMG-03-263, title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". Rex Wailes' note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopedia, original can be copied".
Unknown artist
Structural drawing of a windmill interior (7/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
A third version of REXW-IMG-03-263, title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent".
Unknown artist
Structural drawing of a windmill (1/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed various English technical terms and given their meaning in French, "Teeth = aluchon, Neck irons = allumelles de fer, bearings = collets, wedges = clés, pins [(....)] = juseaux, [.....], bedstone = gissante".
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Structural drawing of a windmill (2/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Original title, "Agriculture Economie Rustique, Moulin à Vent". On the reverse Rex Wailes has listed the 87 parts enumerated on the drawing and applied the French terms to several of them. For example, "65. le frein, 73. l'auget".
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
Structural drawing of machinery for a windmill interior (8/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Rex Wailes' note on the reverse reads, "from Diderot's Encyclopaedia. Original can be copied".
Unknown artist
Structural drawing of a windmill interior (4/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1762".
Unknown artist
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Kyröskoski waterfall in Hämeenkyrö, Satakunta
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse states:
"Watercolour by Colonel A F Skjöldebrand, 1798. (A gravure made after this is found in his work 'Voyage Pittoresque au Cap du Nord, avec gravures', published 1801)".
Skjöldebrand, A F
Kyröskoski waterfall in Hämeenkyrö, Satakunta
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse states:
"Watercolour by Colonel A F Skjöldebrand, 1798. (A gravure made after this is found in his work 'Voyage Pittoresque au Cap du Nord, avec gravures', published 1801)".
Skjöldebrand, A F
Old Dock Mill (Society Mill), Portsmouth
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
This print shows the Society Mill, also known as Old Dock Mill, Portsmouth. This was built in 1798 and demolished in 1867. In 1816 the Dock Mill was built to replace it while the structure remained. The old mill was topped by a 20 foot statue of the goddess Ceres and this may be seen in the picture.
Fowlers Horizontal Air Mill, Battersea
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Notes on reverse:- Erected 1788 and dismantled 1825. It was 120 ft high.
Kyröskoski waterfall and mills in Hämeenkyrö, Satakunta
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Note on reverse states:
"From Carl von Kügelgen: 'Vues Pittoresques de la Finlande'. He travelled in Finland 1818; his work was published in 1824".
von Kügelgen, Carl
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Photograph of an oval painting showing a river and townscape and a number of mills and churches. Signed JC Sargeant? 1848.
The white post mill is Webster’s mill (demolished between 1887 and 1895) and the black open trestle mill without sails is Bell’s mill (last known to be standing in 1846), both in Leverington Road.
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
A print used for a calendar of an etching in the British Museum, described in the catalogue as 'Sunset view of the remains of St Benet's Abbey, with windmill behind; cattle resting on a bank and wading in a stretch of water in foreground; haywagon drawn by a horse approaching in middle ground from right; Plate 6; after Stark; proof. c 1834'.
Unknown
Halnaker Mill, Sussex, by William Turner of Oxford
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
Copy of painting of Halnaker Mill, Boxgrove, near Chichester, by William Turner of Oxford, dated 1837, National Gallery of Scotland.
Wailes, Reginald (1901-1986), engineer, known as Rex
"The Port of Wisbech Cambridgeshire"
Part of Rex Wailes Collection
Part of the Rex Wailes collection.
A view of the port of Wisbech showing ships in a wide canal, two post mills and one tower mill. Drawn by J.P.Hunter. Published by J.P.Hunter,Wisbech, February 1840. Sent as a calendar to Enid and Rex Wailes, Christmas 1947.
The white post mill is Webster’s mill and the black mill is Bell’s mill, both in Leverington Road.
Hunter, J P