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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.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjIvdG8tdGhlLXJpZ2h0LWhvbmFibGUtd2lsbHMtaGlsbC1lYXJsLW9mLWhpbGxzYm9yb3VnaC10aGlzLXBsYXRlLXJlcHJlc2VudGluZy04M2ZkMzItNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/33/webp "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.")
![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/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDkvMjIvdG8tdGhlLXJpZ2h0LWhvbmFibGUtd2lsbHMtaGlsbC1lYXJsLW9mLWhpbGxzYm9yb3VnaC10aGlzLXBsYXRlLXJlcHJlc2VudGluZy0xNTI1M2QtNjQwLmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "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.")
To the right hon'ble Lord Bangor, this plate representing a complete perspective view of all the machinery of a bleach mill, upon the newest and most approved constructions, consisting of the wash mill, rubbing boards moved by a crank, and beetling engine for glazing the cloth, with a view of the boiling house; is most respectfully inscribed by ... William Hincks / William Hincks, delin. et sculp.
Summary
Print shows an interior view of a mill where three men and a woman are engaged in washing, rubbing, glazing and boiling fabric.
Plate IX.
Incorporated into the title is a coat-of-arms.
First published 1782.
DCRM(G) example, 1A2.5, inclusion of non-title text inseparable from title
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Date
01/01/1791
Contributors
Hincks, William, artist
Location
Ballybay (Ireland), 53.46667, -8.00000
Source
Library of Congress
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