Updates (version June 2010)
Notes
Letter 12, n. 5, changed to:
Here Van Gogh names popular tourist attractions: Crystal Palace, the principal structure of the 1851 Great Exhibition, re-erected in Sydenham; the medieval Tower of London; and Madame Tussaud’s waxworks museum in Baker Street.
Letters 199, n. 9; 235, n. 13; 314, n. 9; and 359, n. 38:
‘Patrick Michael Fitzgerald (fl. 1871-1891)’ changed to: ‘Michael FitzGerald (1848-1922)’.
Letter 260, n. 9:
‘letters 202, 215 and 245’ changed to: ‘letters 202, 216 and 245’.
Letter 363, n. 2, changed to:
Van Gogh thinks that the drawings listed here, which he had mentioned before, could also be photographed. The first drawing would have had the same subject as the sketch The sandpit at Dekkersduin near The Hague (F 1028 / JH 367), which Vincent had sent to Theo with letter 348. The drawings, which Van Gogh also calls ‘team of workmen labouring’, are mentioned in letters 348-357.
Letter 535, n. 15, changed to:
Cf. letter 534, where Van Gogh also talked about Hals’s use of yellow. He borrowed the term “jaune chamois” from Thoré, who used it in connection with Hals’s Merry drinker (see Thoré 1858-1860, vol. 1, p. 60).
Letter 539, n. 19:
‘letter 534’ changed to ‘letters 534 and 535’.
Letter 545:
Notes 4 and 5 have been reversed.
Letter 549, n. 4:
‘The Grote Markt (F 1356 / JH 974) and The spire of the Church of Our Lady (F 1352 / JH 975)’ changed to: ‘The Grote Markt (F 1352 / JH 975) and The spire of the Church of Our Lady (F 1356 / JH 974)’.
Letter 611, n. 4, changed to:
It emerges … that the Charpentier gallery had sold five small paintings … 38 x 46 cm. See J. B. de la Faille, ‘Sammler und Markt. Unbekannte bilder von Vincent van Gogh’, Der Cicerone, February 1927, pp. 101-105. F 290 must have been one …
Letter 641, n. 1:
The last five paragraphs have been moved to letter 643, n. 1.
Letter 665:
Notes 10 and 11 have been reversed.
Chronology, 1888, changed to:
About 19 June
Has read Loti’s Madame Chrysanthème (628).
23 June
Sends a drawing to Theo (630).
July
Reads Balzac’s César Birotteau. Decides to re-read all of Balzac’s novels (636, 637).
Images
Letter 77, n. 1:
New image and caption: A moss animal (Flustra foliacea) and a hydroid (Hydrallmania falcata) (ill. 1918).
Letter 160, n. 2:
Images of the illustrations from Zahn have been added (ills. 3094, 3095, 3096, 3097 and 3098).
Letter 446, n. 1:
New image of Plan of Van Gogh’s studio at Heieind (ill. 2121).
Letter 491:
New images of the letter (recto and verso).
Letter 689:
Image of enclosed sketch corrected through reversal.
Credit lines
Vincent van Gogh, The viaduct (F 480 / JH 1603): ‘Kunsthaus Zurich’ changed to ‘Private collection’.
Vincent van Gogh, Cart with black ox (F 39 / JH 505): Portland Art Museum, Gift of Fred and Frances Sohn.
Concordance
This edition / Collected Letters (CL)
Letter 343 = CL 285
Letter 384 = CL 322
Letter 423 = CL 352
Letter 424 = CL -
Letter 496 = CL 403
Letter 504 = CL R51
Letter 514 = CL R52
Letter 564 = CL 456
Letter 616 = CL 493
Letter 732 = CL 568
Letter 885 = CL 641a