Landscape with Wheelbarrow [SEP] material used
Landscape with Wheelbarrow
Landscape with Wheelbarrow is a watercolor created in 1883 by Vincent van Gogh.
See also.
- Early works of Vincent van Gogh
cut and fill construction. In the 1860s there was no heavy equipment that could be used to make these cuts or haul it away to make the fills. The options were to dig it out by pick and shovel, haul the hillside material by wheelbarrow and/or horse or mule cart or blast it loose. To blast a V shaped cut out, they had to drill several holes up to deep in the material, fill them with black powder, and blast the material away. Since the Central Pacific was in a hurry,