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Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(15-16 July 1882)
... degrees. As soon as I am quite well again, I should like to do a clear watercolour on Harding, because this paper permits (more than the Whatman) putting in a solid black-and-white foundation before beginning to wash in, without spoiling the watercolour...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(21 July 1882)
... Ever yours, Vincent Please remember the thick Ingres if you can, enclosed is another sample. I still have a supply of the thin kind. I can do watercolour washes on the thick Ingres, but on the sans fin, for instance, it always goes blurry,...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(26 July 1882)
... you come, you will see it for yourself. This evening I made the rounds of all the shops, looking for the thick Ingres paper, but had no luck. They have the thin kind, but not the thick or “double.” Some time ago I bought out all of Stam's supply, and...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(5 August 1882)
... look like a kind of comfortable barge. Yesterday afternoon I was in the attic of the wholesale paper firm of Smulders on the Laan. There I found - can you guess? - the double Ingres, under the name of Torchon paper; the grain is even coarser than in yours. I'm...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 6-8 November 1882)
... as that which Buhot mentioned to you. Meanwhile, I long very much to compare the paper of the Vie Moderne with that which I bought from Smulders. S.'s is very expensive, 1.75 guilders a sheet, but it is pleasant to work on. You see, I scratched...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 12-18 December 1882)
... the streets in winter than in summer. I read your information about Buhot's paper which you sent. If you think it advisable for me to work on it, I should have several sheets, and I think they are made in the right size, so that I could adjust my work to them....
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 7 February 1883)
... Christmas Papers, for instance - are done? I have samples of the paper and also some information about the varying forces of Black and White and the way they can be produced. The paper is very curious; sometimes the grain has a sort of ground colour, which is...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Anthon van Rappard
(c. 27 February 1883)
... drawing with ink on the stone itself. At the same time I am sending you two samples of coarse paper which I think is very suitable for mounting the wood engravings. They show up well just because it is so rough, and its colour is lovely. The...
Letter from Vincent van Gogh to Theo van Gogh
(c. 4 March 1883)
... can get some new things which I shall need. For instance, I intend to buy, at what they call wholesale price, several things which he has had for a long time, and will let me have cheaply. Especially a number of sheets of a rough kind of watercolour paper which...

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