An arm on the clay model for Aesculapius, cf. sketch model A20, falls of. The same model crashed entirely after the death of Thorvaldsen 26.6.1844.

Primary sources

• Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 227 (documents that only an arm had fallen of as opposed to the later more serious accident).
• Thiele IV, p. 231.
• Carl Frederik Wilckens: Træk af Thorvaldsens Konstner- og omgangsliv, samlede til Familielæsning, Copenhagen 1874, p. 104.

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