Comment on 31.1.1805
This portfolio is not known. Thorvaldsen asked about it in his letter dated 6.8.1804. It was sent in one of the crates, which had been carried on board the frigate Triton from Leghorn to Copenhagen in 1802 and were mentioned in Thorvaldsen’s letter dated 4.4.1800.
By mistake, the portfolio had been given to Friedrich Münter, but it had been intended for Jørgen West. It appears in a later letter dated 19.10.1805 that the portfolio had been given to Münter’s sister Friederike Brun, who at Abildgaard’s request handed it back to Jørgen West.
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