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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.

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.

Architecture: section of a windmill. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].

Two windmills (in the Netherlands?) Pencil drawing [by Lilly?], 1862.

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A wind-operated mill (top), and the same mill water-operated (below). Coloured aquatint by V. Raineri.

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.

Architecture: section of a windmill. Engraving by Bénard [after Lucotte?].

Crimean War: French ambulance men carrying the English wounded before Sebastopol. Wood engraving.

Two windmills (in the Netherlands?) Pencil drawing [by Lilly?], 1862.