# Three windmills for drawing water

- By: Wessel Jansen (died 1696)
- Date: c. 1650 - before 1696
- Medium: silver (metal)
- Classification: miniature
- Dimensions: height 6.2 cm x width 4.7 cm x depth 3.8 cm
- Credit line: Private gift
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-14913-XXV-A--858f2ac8e2b9751e5b7ca4507027c583)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/468555c6e976ef88b4aa96b4f1cec86d.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

Some types of miniature continued to be produced for ages. One such ‘evergreen’ subject was the windmill placed above a well. These mills used wind power to draw up a bucket of water. While there is more than a century between the earliest and the latest, their form and decoration have remained virtually the same.