PLATE 11. The Invention of the Windmill. Eleventh plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of several wind mills in a landscape. A town with its churches is depicted in the background on the right. In the middle ground a woman carries a sack on her back, a man drives a horse-drawn carriage with more sacks, and a man draws a sack down from the top of a wind mill. In the foreground a man carries a sa
PLATE 11. The Invention of the Windmill. Eleventh plate from a print series entitled Nova Reperta (New Inventions of Modern Times) consisting of a title page and 19 plates, engraved by Jan Collaert I, after Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, and published by Philips Galle. Illustration of several wind mills in a landscape. A town with its churches is depicted in the background on the right. In the middle ground a woman carries a sack on her back, a man drives a horse-drawn carriage with more sacks, and a man draws a sack down from the top of a wind mill. In the foreground a man carries a sack on horseback, while a woman carries another one on her back.
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