![To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved [sic] rollers, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjIvdG8tdGhlLXJpZ2h0LWhvbmFibGUtd2lsbHMtaGlsbC1lYXJsLW9mLWhpbGxzYm9yb3VnaC10aGlzLXBsYXRlLXJlcHJlc2VudGluZy04M2ZkMzItNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/320/267/jpg "To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved [sic] rollers, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.")
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To the right hon'able Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, this plate representing a perspective view of a scutch mill, with the method of breaking the flax with groved [sic] rollers, and scutching it with blades fixt on a shaft, both turn'd by the main wheel; great improvements in the method of breaking and scutching of flax; is most respectfully dedicated by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.
Zusammenfassung
Print shows an interior view of a "scutch" mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fiber.
Plate V.
Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms "Perdeum et Ferrum Obtinui."
First published 1782.
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Datum
1850 - 1950
Mitwirkende
Hincks, William, artist
Downshire, Wills Hill, Marquis of, 1718-1793.
Lage
Ballybay (Ireland), 53.46667, -8.00000
Quelle
Library of Congress
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