Plate V. To the Right Hon.ble Wills Hill, Earl of Hillsborough, This Plate representing a Perspective View of a Scutch Mill, with the Method of Breaking the Flaxwith groved 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 his Lordships obedient and much obliged humble Servant, W.m Hincks.
W.m Hincks delin. et sculp.
London, Publish'd as the Act directs by W.m Hincks, July 4.th 1783.
Stipple, sheet 345 x 420mm (13½ x 16½"). Trimmed to plate, nicks and tears at edges. Small holes on image.
An interior view of a 'scutch' mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fibre. From William Hincks illustrations depicting the Irish Linen Industry.
[Ref: 60381] £380.00
London, Publish'd as the Act directs by W.m Hincks, July 4.th 1783.
Stipple, sheet 345 x 420mm (13½ x 16½"). Trimmed to plate, nicks and tears at edges. Small holes on image.
An interior view of a 'scutch' mill where rollers and blades are used to break and beat flax in order to remove the woody fibre. From William Hincks illustrations depicting the Irish Linen Industry.
[Ref: 60381] £380.00