# Three windmills for drawing water

- By: Johannes van Somerwil (I) (1715–1764)
- Date: 1760
- Medium: silver (metal)
- Classification: miniature
- Dimensions: height 7.2 cm x width 3.7 cm x depth 2 cm
- Credit line: Private gift
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/BK-14913-XXV-B--f28339a33146be445b27673c5561b409)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/22025ddc3888ed3da3cbb148c06f1712.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.