"In this Summer time of ours with Scheveningen on the shore the bathing time and the hot weather I did very few things.. ..was only busy calculating my studies [for later paintings] and to see what I should do.. ..an interior with some figures an outside Schevening shore scene a scene with sentiment of feeling or a picture quite after nature so natural as if it was the old dutch school [17th century].. ..I hope the next days will bring me a safe outcome from the turbulations in my head, all is so fine and beautiful to do.. [original text by Israëls]"
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In a letter from The Hague, 26 August 1872, to his friend and colleague George Reid in Edinburgh; as cited in Jozef Israëls, 1824 – 1911, ed. Dieuwertje Dekkers; Waanders, Zwolle 1999, p. 363
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