30.9.1811 - The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives


	No. 1082 of 10318

Sender	Date	Recipient
Bertel Thorvaldsen [+] Sender’s Location Rom	30.9.1811 [+] Dating based on Dateringen fremgår af brevet.	Niels Rosenkrantz [+] Recipient’s Location København
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D.E. meget ærede Skrivelse af 31. Aug. hvori jeg anmodes at meddele Underretning om de af den nyelig ved Døden afgl. E.R. West efterladte Kunstsager her i Rom især med Hensyn til de i mit Værge værende 4 Stykker nemlig en Buste af Tiber, en mindre af en Faun, et Fragment af Laaget til en Sarcophag og min egen Buste, hvad Kunstsager disse undtagen som E.R. West her anskaffede, førte han med sig herfra. Busten af Tiber i naturlig Størrelse og Busten af en Faun i halv naturlig Størrelse. Saavel disse Buster som det lidet Fragment af Hiørnet til en Sarcophag af hvidt Marmor og antike var af middelmaadig Arbeide. Min Buste som E.R. West bestilte og betalte er under Arbeide i Marmor og næsten færdig. Hans Aftale at jeg skulde besørge disse Sager til Kbhavn naar min Buste var færdig.
Skulde det behage H.M. at have disse 4 Stykker tilsendte da kan det skee paa første Vink uden Vanskelighed. Omkostninger herfra til Hamborg beløber 9 1/2 Scudi for 100 [tegn for vægtenhed] hvilket betales for en Transport af 4 Figurer og adskillige Basreliefs som jeg fra mit Værksted nyeligen sendte herfra over Land til Hamborg for derfra at gaae videre i sin Bestemmelse

Your Excellency’s favour of August 31^st in which I am requested to give information about the recently deceased E.R. West’s art left here in Rome especially as regards the 4 pieces in my custody namely a bust of Tiberius, a smaller one of a faun, a fragment of the cover of a sarcophagus and my own bust, except for these what articles of art which E.R. West obtained here, he brought along with him from here. The bust of Tiberius is life-sized and the bust of a faun half-size. Both these busts and the small fragment of a corner of a sarcophagus of white marble and antique were of mediocre work. My bust which E.R. West commissioned and paid for is being executed in marble and almost finished. The arrangement with him was that I was to forward these articles to Copenhagen when my bust had been finished.
If it should please His Majesty to have these 4 articles sent it can be done without difficulty at the first intimation. The expenses from here to Hamburg amount to 9½ Scudi for 100 [a symbol of a weight unit] which is paid for a transport of 4 figures and several bas-reliefs which I recently sent from my workshop from here by land to Hamburg to continue from there to the destination.

[Translated by Karen Husum]

General Comment
Der findes et udkast til dette brev.
Archival Reference
Rigsarkivet, Departementet for de Udenlandske Anliggender, Gruppeordnede sager: Kunst: Sager vedrørende understøttelse af kunstnere, indhold af kunst m.v., 1789-1829, nr. 991.
Thiele
Størstedelen gengivet hos Thiele II, p. 176.
Persons
Hans West
Works

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