"Hydraulique, Machine de Marli"
- MCFC-ENG-070
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- 18th century
Machine at Marly, France.
Benard, Robert (1734-1777), engraver
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"Hydraulique, Machine de Marli"
Machine at Marly, France.
Benard, Robert (1734-1777), engraver
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
Watercolour of two French windmills
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
c19th century watercolour of a French landscape with a post mill and tower mill. A miller is climbing the stairs to the post mill whilst villagers socialise on the roadside.
Unknown artist
Fussell, J, artist
"Architecture, Moulin à Scier les Pierres en dalles, et Machine à forer les Pierres à tourner les Bases des Colonnes."
Unknown creator
The Windmills of Montmartre 1842.
Part of Ken Preece Collection
Typewritten label:
"The Windmills of Montmartre 1842. Early Photo by Hippolyte Bayard."
Bayard, Hippolyte
"Le Moulin Laquet, Batterie occupee par les Prussiens"
Misspelled Moulin Saquet located in Vitry-sur-Seine near Paris. Demolished in 1857, in 1870 the site was used by the Prussians. The Avenue du Moulin de Saquet is located near the site of the farm at which the mill was located.
"Bataille de Saint-Quentin (18 Janvier 1871)"
French postcard, on the reverse it describes the battle.
"Le Moulin de Saint Jouin (près Étretat) (Collection de Mr. Edouard Corroyer)"
Part of Stephen Buckland Collection
Etching of a post mill near Étretat, France, after Richard Bonington, and published (according to the British Museum) in L'Art; revue hebdomadaire illustrée, volume XVI, 1879.
Gaucherel, Léon (1816-1886), French engraver
Postcard postmarked 26 January 1902.
Painting by Jules Rouffet of a Napoleonic scene in front of an unidentified windmill.
"Meaux - Les Vieux Moulins sur Pilotis"
Postcard dated 14 August 1917.