Pinwheels, whirligigs, and toy windmills in the 18th century
Les Quatres Ages de la vie humaine: L’Enfance, c. 1675-1704
De rarekiek by Willem van Mieris, 1718
Front of a secondhand shop, c. 1734-1735
The Golden Age by Jean Baptiste Joseph Pater
Toy windmill with horses and knight
Das Stecken-Pfert, die Dock und andtre Spiel-wercks-Sachen &hellip, c. 1750
pretty little toys for Girls and Boys all a half penny a piece wind mills a ha’penny a piece by Paul Sandby, c. 1759
A lady entertaining a child of a Savoyard woman with a pinwheel by Noël Hallé
The lacemaker, c. 1770-1800