Comment on 24.4.1804
In order to avoid a loss on exchanges, the 300 rix-dollars were deposited in Altona and converted into Hamburger Banco, which would secure Thorvaldsen against a loss, cf. Ernst Schimmelmann’s recommendation to the King, reproduced in the Danish National Archives (ed.): Fonden ad usus publicos. Aktmæssige Bidrag til Belysning af dens virksomhed, vol. 2, 1801-26, Copenhagen 1902, p. 75: “[...] The board asks permission: to assign this sum to him at the bank (Bank-Comptoir) in Altona in Hamburger Banco in order to secure him against a loss on exchanges.” The recommendation was approved on 14.3.1804, ibid. The same draft in the archive of the foundation shows that the original plan seems to have been to have the money paid through the Danish consul in Leghorn, J.C. Ulrich.
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