The Three Windmills
| Object type | Drawing |
| Genre | Landscape |
| Date | ca. 1613 |
| Dimensions | 11.8 x 17.7 cm |
| Support | Paper |
| Medium | Pen and brown ink, with brown and blue-green wash |
| Our attribution | Jan Brueghel the Elder |
| Other authorities | Bailey/Walker cat. #LOND.BM.1 |
| Location | London, England |
| Collection | British Museum |
| Accession numbers | RN 1921,0129.1 |
| Tags | Village, Windmill, River, Boat |
| External resources | British Museum |
According to the "Curator's Comments" on the British Museum website: This composition resembles a painting attributed to a follower of Brueghel at Rijksdienst voor het Cultureel Erfgoed in The Hague; see K. Ertz, "Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde", Cologne, 1979, pp.167-169, fig.187 (the original by Brueghel is apparently lost); the same windmill appears in many paintings by Brueghel; for example the, inv.no.138, see K. Ertz, "Jan Brueghel der Ältere: Die Gemälde", Cologne, 1979, cat.no.151. An etching by Hollar (New Hollstein 1109), published by Joannes Meyssens in Antwerp in 1651, reproduces the composition in reverse; see 1856,0607.30.