Author: John ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Windmills & Watermills
Author: John ReynoldsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Jacob Van Ruisdael
Author: Seymour SlivePublisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606060554
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Windmills were ubiquitous in seventeenth-century Holland and they remain the best-known symbol of the Dutch landscape. Jacob van Ruisdael first depicted them as a precocious teenager and continued to represent all types in various settings until his very last years. Water mills, in contrast, were scarce in the new Dutch Republic, found mainly in the eastern provinces, particularly near the border with Germany. Ruisdael discovered them in the early 1650s and was the first artist to make water mills the principal subject of a landscape. His most celebrated painting, Windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede at the Rijksmuseum, and the J. Paul Getty Museum's Two Undershot Water Mills with an Open Sluice are the centerpieces of this overview of the artist's depictions of windmills and water mills. Both depended upon forces of nature for their operation, but their use in the Netherlands and their place in seventeenth-century Dutch art differed considerably. This book examines their role in Holland and introduces readers to the pleasure of studying Ruisdael's images of them, a joy conveyed by the English landscapist John Constable in a letter written to his dearest friend after seeing a Ruisdael painting of a water mill in a London shop: “It haunts my mind and clings to my heart.”
Jacob Van Ruisdael
Author: Seymour SliveA Source Book of Windmills and Watermills
Author: Rex WailesPublisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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Windmills and watermills
Author: John ReynoldsWindmills and Water Mills of Long Island
Author: Anne Frances PullingPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738502885
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Windmills and water mills are truly the wonders of an earlier era, the wooden technology of yesteryear. To us, they may be graceful and charming relics. To the colonists, however, they were a vital necessity. Colonial craftsmen constructed them to mill grain, saw wood, pump water, and do various other jobs. Furthermore, the mill was the gathering place for the villagers. While they waited for their grain to be milled, the villagers exchanged news and gossip and stories. Millers were well respected not only for their mill's output but also for their own weather forecasts, knowledge of engines and machines, and, of course, up-to-date news. Long Island is an ideal place for catching the steady wind from the ocean and bays: 125 miles long, narrow--only 20 miles across at its widest, and relatively flat. Thus, many windmills were built here and still exist here, particularly at the island's east end. As a matter of fact, the south fork of eastern Long Island contains the greatest number of surviving windmills in the United States. Before 1700, Long Island also had many water mills, some of them powered by the tide.
Windmills and Watermills of Suffolk
Author: John LingPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445664348
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Explore a fascinating illustrated in-depth study of Suffolk's windmills and watermills, past and present.
British Windmills and Watermills
Author: Charles Philip SkiltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Watermills and Windmills
Author: William Coles-FinchWindmills & Watermills
Author: Christine ViallsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water mills
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description