Thorvaldsen’s birthday is celebrated at Nysø with songs, poems, a lottery, and a performance of Johan Herman Wessel’s play Love without Stockings. Besides Thorvaldsen and the residents of the house, A.C. Petersen, Nicolai Søtoft, August Beck, Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard and Just Mathias Thiele are also present.

Primary sources

• Song dated 19.11.1840 from Henrik Stampe to Thorvaldsen.
• Song dated 19.11.1840 from A.C. Petersen to Thorvaldsen.
• Song dated 19.11.1840 from Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard to Thorvaldsen.
• Epilogue dated 19.11.1840 from Nicolai Søtoft to Thorvaldsen.
• Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 85-88.

Other references

• Related Article: Thorvaldsen’s Birthday 19.11.

Last updated 16.06.2019