Archive Catalogue

"Brueghel - view of a post mill"

RHSC-01-01-010
Item
1614

Part of Richard Hills Collection

Hills, Richard Leslie (1936-2019), historian and clergyman

Detail from an oil painting, post mill, Richmond

KGFC-GPN-E-077
Item
No date (copy of painting from c 1730)

Part of Kenneth G Farries Collection

Farries, Kenneth G, author

Engraving of a windmill (3/8) by Prevost for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-262
Item
1762 (copy)

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 (6/8) for Diderot's Encyclopédie

REXW-IMG-03-265
Item
1762 (copy)

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

REXW-IMG-03-266
Item
1762 (copy)

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

REXW-IMG-03-260
Item
1762 (copy)

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

REXW-IMG-03-261
Item
1762 (copy)

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

REXW-IMG-03-267
Item
1762 (copy)

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

REXW-IMG-03-263
Item
1762 (copy)

Part of Rex Wailes Collection

Note on the reverse reads, "From Diderot's Encyclopaedia, 1762".

Unknown artist

Detail of a Bed Curtain showing a post mill

JSPB-PHT-50-11
Item
1765

Part of Stephen Buckland Collection

Photograph copyright to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, showing a detail of a bed curtain showing a post mill in their collection, accession number 87.21.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

"The Camp at Cox Heath"

SPAB-WIS-BERKS-04
Item
1778 (copy)

Part of SPAB Mills Section Collection

Photograph from Victoria and Albert Museum of painting "The Camp at Cox Heath" by Sandby, showing post mill. It is not clear why this has been filed with the Berkshire material.

Sandby, Thomas (1721-1798), painter