Flour mill
1865
Simpson, William RI FRGS
SSEA
Painting of a flour mill driven by oxen in India. The grinder is enclosed within a simple wooden hut supported by a long horizontal beam made from a tree trunk. A young boy pours the grain into a funnel like vessel connected to the large grinder in the centre. A woman and her child drive the oxen in a circular path to work the primitive machine.
- Maker/Artist
- Simpson, William RI FRGS
- Classification
- Painting
- Medium
- watercolour, painting
- Locations
- city: London
- Dimensions
- Height: 9.5 in Width: 13.75 in
- Departments
- SSEA
- Accession Number
- 1163-1869
- Credit Line
- Purchased from Messrs Day and Son Ltd (London) in 1869
- Rights Statement
- arr
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