Almost completes the modelling of Ludvig Holberg, A876.
Primary sources
Newspaper notice dated 7.6.1839 i Berlingske Tidende (documents that the bust is almost finished).
Albert Repholtz: Thorvaldsen og Nysø, Copenhagen 1911, p. 27 (the clay model was cast in plaster on 16.8.1839).
Thiele IV, p. 70 (writes erroneously that the bust is begun after the return from the trip to Kullen and before Thorvaldsen’s departure for Nysø, see presumably 12.7.1839).
Other references
Else Kai Sass: Thorvaldsens Portrætbuster, Copenhagen 1963-65, Vol. II, p. 319-325, 379, 387.