1. The lithograph whose sending is mentioned in letter 281 was Old man (F 1658 / JH 256 ).

2. It is not known when these experiments by Van Rappard took place; it appears to have been some time ago. Van Rappard’s earliest surviving etching is Seated old Drenthe woman, which cannot have been made earlier than September 1882. See exhib. cat. Amsterdam 1974, p. 78, cat. nos. 80-81.

3. Three impressions of this lithograph Sorrow (F 1655 / JH 259 ) are known; see Van Heugten and Pabst 1995, p. 42, cat. no. 2.

a. Means: ‘Bespaart woorden’ (Saves words).

4. The drawing after which the lithograph was made is probably (F 929 / JH 129 ); see Van Heugten and Pabst 1995, p. 42, cat. no. 2.