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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.
  • The heavens open on the day of judgement; Christ appears above the coast of the Netherlands. Engraving, 16th century.
  • Greenwich, with London in the distance. Engraving by J. Tomlinson, 1809, after E. Pugh, 1804.
  • James Graham and Gustavus Katterfelto in combat using electrotherapy machines as weapons. Etching, 1783.
  • A cutaway diagram of the inside of a windmill (top right), and three different kinds of windmill (below) Engraving by W. Lowry, 1819, after J. Farey.
  • London, seen from Greenwich. Engraving, 1779.
  • A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares in a village square with the assistance of a monkey. Pen drawing.
  • Architecture: section of a windmill. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].
  • Hydraulics: two devices. Woodcut, 1659.
  • Architecture: sections of a windmill-driven sawing shed. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].
  • A section through two different types of windmill. Engraving by W. Lowry, 1816, after J. Farey.
  • An itinerant medicine vendor selling his wares to a small group of country people. Engraving by W. French after G. Dou.
  • Husbands bringing their ugly wives to a windmill, to be transformed into beautiful ones. Engraving, ca 1650.
  • Architecture: details of a windmill mechanism and a sawing shed. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].
  • Two windmills (in the Netherlands?) Pencil drawing [by Lilly?], 1862.