352

Br. 1990: 354 | CL: 292
From: Vincent van Gogh
To: Theo van Gogh
Date: The Hague, on or about Monday, 11 June 1883
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1. This is the resumption of the unknown drawing that was also mentioned in letters 350 and 351.
2. The subject of the drawing is shown in the letter sketch in letter 350. After several treatments and being ‘transferred’ to a new sheet, the drawing had been considerably altered in the process, as is evident from the letter sketch later in the present letter, Rubbish dump (dung-heap) (F - / JH 370). The original drawing has not been preserved.
3. These are the drawing Peat diggers in the dunes (F 1031 / JH 363 [2437]), and an unknown drawing referred to in letter 348 as ‘team of workmen labouring’. The first measures c. 50 x 100 cm. Cf. letter 348, n. 5.
[2437]
4. This study of a woman sewing is not known.
5. The regular model was Adrianus Zuyderland; see letter 277.
6. The Diakonie Armhuis of the Nederlands Hervormde Gemeente in Kleine Laan, A 147, now Schoolstraat 1-3 (Oudarchief gemeente Voorburg; inventaris der bezittingen van de Diakonie Armen der Nederlands Hervormde Gemeente).
a. Means: ‘boiled in tannin – a brownish yellow dye – so that the nets become more durable and take on a yellow or brownish colour’.
7. For the stretching frames Van Gogh had had made for large drawings, see letter 348.
8. For the first version of the subject, cf. the letter sketch in letter 350.