drawing
- Museum number
- 1978,0520.8
- Description
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The Lambeth Drug Mill; a windmill and other buildings with a man lowering a sack attached to the end of a pulley-system, a man and two horses resting near a cart at left
Pen and grey ink and watercolour
- Production date
- 1750-1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 214 millimetres
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Width: 290 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The mill shown was in Grays Walk, off Three Coney Walk (now Lambeth Walk) which was used for grinding materials for drugs from at least 1759 (see M. Short, Windmills in Lambeth: an historical survey, 1971, pp. 42-3). Sandby made at least three other views of the mill (two in the Guildhall Library and one belonging to Lambeth Public Libraries) and made a print after one of them which is dated 1780. The crisp style of this drawing suggests that it was made in the 1750s or 60s.
This drawing is very close to that exhibited in the exhibition 'London Delineated' at the Museum of London in 1981, No.16 from the collection of the Guildhall Library. It adds weight to the attention of the drawing to Sandby. This drawing has previously been attributed to Gideon Yates (1790-1837).
See M.Short, 'Windmills in Lambeth: A Historical Survey', (1971), pp.38-43.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2003 May-Nov, BM, London 1753, no. 2.40
- Acquisition date
- 1978
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1978,0520.8
