Photo #13

 

Van Gogh

De Turfschnit 1883

This painting, depicting a peat boat and two peat-cutters, is of significant cultural and historical interest, as it documents the cutting of peat in the vast bog area in the southeast corner of Drenthe. © 1998 Drents Museum.

 

 

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