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To Anthon Van Rappard. the Hague, on Or About Saturday, 20 January 1883 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 20 January 1883. on or about Saturday, 20 January 1883 Metadata Source status: Original manuscript Location: Amsterdam, Van Gogh Museum, inv. no. b8357 V/2006 Date: Van Gogh has now received the 21 volumes of The Graphic. In his previous letter of on or about 18 January he said that he had bought them and that they would be delivered this week (i.e. by Sunday at the latest) (letter 302, l. 65). Because he says he has been looking at them until deep into the night (ll. 3-4), the reaction in this letter must be from not long after he received them. We therefore date the letter on or about Saturday, 20 January 1883. Additional: Original [1r:1] Amice Rappard. De Graphics zijn nu in mijn bezit. Ik heb ze tot diep in den nacht zitten te bekijken. k Weet niet of gij de jaargangen 70-75 b.v. kent misschien hebt ge ze zelf bij de door U gekochte partij. Doch gesteld ge hebt ze er niet bij, zoo zult gij zeker in verrukking zijn over die eerste jaren als gij bij gelegenheid deze ziet. Ik hoop hartelijk gij ze bij Uwe partij hebt, en anders zoo zal ik er U eens uitvoerig over schrijven daar er zooveel belangrijks in staat, in afwachting dat gij ze ziet, en op de een of andere wijs moet gij ze ook in uw verzameling krijgen. Zoo b.v. staan er in eene serie teekeningen uit de kolenmijnen door Ridley 1 gedaan op 1 1 2 To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 20 January 1883. eene wijs die aan de etsen van Whistler of Seymour Haden3 doet denken. Er staan in dergelijke teekeningen van Boyd Houghton , over America vooral.6 Boyd H. kende ik tot heden niet als Z interessant. Van hem ook schetsen uit den tijd der commune, petroleuses eene barricade &c.8 Herkomer is superbe verscheiden groote bladen zag ik voor t eerst heden, Oude vrouwen huis, 10 oude mannenhuis, 13 schoenmaker, 15 Kegelbaan, 18 Weesmannen, 20 Lodging house21 &c. Er staan ook nog Pinwells 23& Fred Walkers 26 in die Matthew White Ridley2 did the series Pits and pitmen for The Graphic in January-February 1871. The following six engravings from this series are in the estate: Section of the shafts and workings of a coal mine, in The Graphic 3 (28 January 1871), p. 76. Ill. 1279 (t*805); Pitmen hewing the coal, in The Graphic 3 (28 January 1871), p. 77. Ill. 2028 (t*122); Pits and pitmen The night shift, in The Graphic 3 (4 February 1871), p. 108. Ill. 2029 (t*126); The men leaving the pit, in The Graphic 3 (11 February 1871). Ill. 2030 (t*124); The coal district, in The Graphic 3 (18 February 1871), p. 156. Ill. 2031 (t*127); and Coal whipping in the Pool, in The Graphic 3 (25 February 1871), p. 173. Ill. 2032 (t*125). 3 The first etchings by James Whistler4 were made in 1858 in London at the house of Francis Seymour Haden5, with whom he worked closely at that time. It is likely that Whistler adopted Hadens etching methods. Cf. Katherine Lochnan, The etchings of James McNeill Whistler. New Haven and London 1984. 6 During the journey to America which Arthur Boyd Houghton7 undertook in 1869 for a commission for The Graphic, he did a number of illustrations for the series Graphic America, which appeared in The Graphic between March and July 1870. In later volumes separate prints were also published. 8 These are scenes from the revolutionary socialist regime in 1871; during the Commune ptroleuses roamed through Paris starting fires. The estate has the following by Boyd Houghton9: The courts martial at Versailles Ptroleuses under trial, in The Graphic 4 (23 September 1871), p. 293. Ill. 969 (t*850); The Paris mob A barricade in Paris, in The Graphic 3 (8 April 1871), p. 313. Ill. 958 (t*87); The Commune of death Women of Montmartre, in The Graphic 3 (10 June 1871), p. 541. Ill. 968 (t*100) and Paris under the Commune Womens club at the Boule Noire, Boulevard Rochechouart, in The Graphic 3 (3 June 1871), p. 520. Ill. 2033 (t*199). 10 In letter 304 Van Gogh writes that he has the old wives by Herkomer11 from the 1876 volume in duplicate, so by his title he seems to mean Christmas in a workhouse , in The Graphic 14 (25 December 1876) (letter 278, n. 13). However, Hubert von Herkomers Old age A study at the Westminster Union, engraved by Eugne Froment12, was likewise in The Graphic 15 (7 April 1877), pp. 324-325. Ill. 2034. (This print had appeared in Harpers Weekly 21 too (28 April 1877), pp. 328-329, with the title The evening of life Scene in a London work-house.) 13 Probably Hubert von Herkomer14s The last muster (Sunday at Chelsea hospital / Chelsea pensioners): see letter 199, n. 12). This print showed the interior of the chapel; an engraving of a detail from it with two figures had appeared in The Graphic 11 (15 May 1875). In this list Van Gogh also mentions Orphan men, by which he may mean this print of a detail (see n. 9 below). 15 There is no shoemaker in any of the prints by Herkomer16 in The Graphic. Van Gogh may have made a slip of the pen, because as well as Violin makers Hubert von Herkomer made Zither makers, in The Graphic 5 (2 March 1872), p. 205, which Van Gogh had in his possession. Ill. 179 (t*457). In the estate there is also Francis Montague Holl17, Shoemaking at the philanthropic societys farm school at Redhill, in The Graphic 5 (18 May 1872), p. 468 (t*96). 18 Hubert von Herkomer19, A Kegelbahn in the Bavarian Alps, in The Graphic 17 (6 April 1878), pp. 352-353. Ill. 172. 20 Probably the print of a detail with two men after The last muster . Van Gogh had already included an old mens home in this list earlier (see n. 6 above). 21 Hubert von Herkomer22, Low lodging house St. Giless, in The Graphic Portfolio of 1877. Ill. 2035 (t*91). It is a reprint of the engraving in The Graphic 6 (10 August 1872), p. 124, Supplement. 23 In 1870-1875 three engravings after works by George John Pinwell24 appeared in The Graphic, namely The lost child in The Graphic 1 (8 January 1870), p. 132, London sketches A country visitor in The Graphic 7 (22 February 1873), p. 177, and The sisters, engraved by Dalziel25, in The Graphic 3 (6 May 1871), p. 416. The last of these is in the estate. Ill. 1218 (t*178). 26 There was only one work by Frederick Walker27 in The Graphic in 1870-1875, namely The lost path , engraved by W. Thomas28, in The Graphic 1 (25 December 1870), p. 85. Walkers The harbour of refuge , mentioned in letter 304, was in The Graphic in 1877. His The old gate (of 1876) was mentioned earlier: see letter 199, n. 10. Thus there is a possibility that Van Gogh thought that the monogram FSW of Francis S. Walker29 was that of Frederick Walker. Nine prints by this Francis appeared in the years 1870-1875: Irish sketches How not to pay the rent , in The Graphic 1 (4 June 1870), p. 644; Irish sketches Going to mass, in The Graphic 1 (11 June 1870), p. 657; Outside the poste restante at St. Denis Letters from Paris , in The Graphic 3 (20 May 1871), p. 457 this one is in the estate (t* 16); Women trying to see the prisoners at Versailles , in The Graphic 3 (24 June 1871), p. 589; Princess Louise and the Queens Prizeman A sketch at Wimbledon , in The Graphic 4 (5 August 1871), p. 121; Cats and cat shows , in The Graphic 4 (2 December 1871), p. 529; A recent sketch in Sandringham churchyard , in To Anthon van Rappard. The Hague, on or about Saturday, 20 January 1883. 3 eerste jaren. [1v:2] Dan Ch. Green , Buckmann , Brewntall , 30 Small , H. Woods , 32 Macbeth , 34 Gregory , allerlei schetsen van arme buurten &c. Frank Holl , the foundling , superbe36 do I am the Resurrection and the life, ,,38 do Railway station39 do Sight seeing41 Ziedaar 3 bladen43 die ik in 10 jaar niet gezien had. Nog eens kom ik op Boyd Houghton terug eene kerk der Shakers of mormonen, 44 ongeloofelijk echt. Een paar mooie bladen van Fildes. Dan groote DU MAURIERS, zonnig en helder in de schaduw. 46 Genoeg, ge begrijpt zelf wel dat er schatten in zijn. Zeer verlangend ben ik naar eenig nader berigt omtrent Uwe vonst.48 Als gij hebt London News uit de periode 70-75 zoo zou ik zeer graag willen weten wat daar al zoo voornamelijk instaat. Ik krijg zeker dubbelen door mijn nieuwen aankoop. Ik weet niet hoe ik doen zal. Deze Graphic serie is in zeer goeden staat, netjes gebonden. Het is haast jammer die los te maken. Toch, om [1v:3] de bladen te kunnen schikken zoodat het werk der teekenaars bij elkaar komt is iets dat ook van belang is. The Graphic 5 (13 January 1872), p. 28; Rome A sketch in the convent garden of Jesu e. Maria , in The Graphic 5 (4 May 1872), p. 420; and Henley-on-Thames regatta Picnicking by the riverside , in The Graphic 5 (22 June 1872), p. 588. 30 There are ten prints after Edward Frederick Brewtnal31 from The Graphic (1871-1873 and 1877) in the estate, including London sketches The battle of the pavements , in The Graphic 15 (24 February 1877), p.
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