Focus on this artwork and analyze the The other windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede.
Ruisdael's windmill no longer stands, although its foundations can still be seen. Another windmill located a few hundred meters further is often confused with Ruisdael's. This confusion was created in 1911 when Hofstede de Groot wrote about the painting:"The Rhine flows from the left distance, filling almost the whole foreground except for a strip of the right-hand bank which is seen in front. 
The bank is lined with piles; reeds grow on it in the centre foreground. 
In the right middle distance is the great stone mill, with its sails at the 
back and inclined to the left. It rises far above the low trees around it 
and the episcopal palace beyond it to the left. To the right of the mill 
is a cottage; farther to the right rises the church tower of the town. On 
a road along the bank to the right are three women. In the right foreground lie two millstones. On the river in the left distance are two 
sailing-boats. To the right of them, behind a bend in the stream, rise 
two masts. A fine cloudy sky. The mill still stands at this spot where 
the Rhine divides to form the Lek and the Kromme Rhyn (or " Crooked " 
Rhine). But it is not so high as it seems in the picture; and the lower 
part is now square and not round, and has a passage through it. Houses 
now stand where the low trees are seen round the mill. One of Ruisdael's 
finest pictures. [Compare 183 and 936.]
Signed in full on the right at foot; canvas, 33 inches by 40 inches. Engraved by L. C. van Kesteren, W. Steelink the elder, and J. H. Graadt van Roggen. Sale. ]. Noe, 1841. In the collection of A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam; bequeathed to the town in 1854. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1910 catalogue, No. 2074."
Amsterdam Rhine Hofstede de Groot episcopal palace Lek piles Rijksmuseum Wijk bij Duurstede Kromme Rhyn A. van der Hoop