78/ 842 "Een zeer fraaije machine welke door zand bewerkt word, verbeeldende een aangenaam Nederlandsch land- en Watergezicht, met een brug die dwars door het stuk loopt (...)". Small letterpress description of an automaton, torn from an unidentified publication, late 18th/ early 19th cent., with 2 contemporary schematic drawings in pen and ink (±19x31 cm.), showing the technical details.

- With ink biting, causing weak parts in the drawing.

= The automaton depicts a Dutch view with a bridge over a waterway on which boats sail and people and carriages crossing the bridge. The whole driven by a wheel turned by falling sand. With annotation on the clipping "Gerrit Manhe(?) te Rott. gekogt Aug. 1801 voor f40".