The excellent blog Transpontine has a post about Turner‘s London paintings. It also linked to this painting, shown above, of “View on Lewisham Hill, Looking Up towards a Windmill on Blackheath 1796-7”.
It also shows how completely rural the area was back then! I always find it hard to imagine.
UPDATE: A different kind of windmills were mentioned on this blog a while back.
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