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Cuesmes, 24 September 1880
...e I am reading one book on anatomy and another on perspective, which Mr. Tersteeg also sent me. These studies are demanding and sometimes the books are extremely tedious, but I think all the same that...
Brussels, 16 February 1881
... he has time to spare. On some points, especially perspective, he is very well informed, and I at least can learn a great deal from him. Now I must tell you another thing that I have done. As I told y...
Brussels, 2 April 1881
...rom them any clear counsel on the difficulties of perspective, etc., with which I am struggling. At least I quite agree with you that someone like Heyerdahl would be far preferable (as he seems to be ...
Etten, June 1881
...e the subjects required much drawing - drawing in perspective, too, for instance, a few workshops in the village here, a forge, a carpenter's shop and the workshop of a maker of wooden shoes. Willemie...
The Hague, 5-9 March 1882
...d, and worked hard, on drawing, on proportion, on perspective, for weeks and weeks; Terste...
The Hague, c. 11 March 1882
...usly, paying greater attention to proportions and perspective. Enough of that. I don't deserve his reproaches, and if my drawings don't amuse him, then it doesn't amuse me to show them to him. He cond...
The Hague, early April 1882
...made me stop doubting was reading a clear book on perspective, Cassange's Guide to the ABC of Drawing; and a week later I drew the interior of a kitchen with stove, chair, table and window - in their ...
The Hague, c. 15-27 April 1882
...ts of people often overlook. There is the correct perspective of an interior, for instance (I will send you a specimen of that too, someday); there are the great lines of a landscape; and then I perso...
The Hague, 1 May 1882
...eeling which you say a person who has not studied perspective gets, when he tries to follow the fugitive lines in a landscape and to account for them. And just as the whole perspective changes with th...

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