Celebration of Thorvaldsen’ return to Rome in Teatro Fiano, attended by international artists there. Thorvaldsen is carried in a torchlight procession to his home in Via Sistina.

Primary sources

• Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 150.
• Letter dated 23.9.1841 from Benjamin Gibson to Edwin Keet.
• Letter dated 12.10.1841 from John Gibson to Margaret Sandbach.
• Letter dated april-maj 1844 from H.P. Holst to Frederik Barfod.

Other references

• Thiele IV, p. 168.

Last updated 11.04.2018