Comment on 19.10.1805

This portfolio contained copperplate engravings but is not known. Thorvaldsen had asked about it in his letter dated 6.8.1804, and Abildgaard had answered 31.1.1805 that he knew nothing bout the matter.
The portfolio was sent in one of crates that were transported on board the frigate Triton from Leghorn to Copenhagen in 1802 and mentioned in Thorvaldsen’s letter dated 4.4.1800.
By mistake, the portfolio had been given to Friedrich Münter but was intended for Jørgen West.
In his letter dated 11.3.1803, West mentions that he had not received anything from Thorvaldsen at that time.

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