Preparatory to the journey to Rome Christine Stampe and Thorvaldsen burn many of his papers and letters, “which it would be better to burn” – according to the sculptor.

Primary sources

• Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 111 (the same kind of incineration took place in August 1840,
  November 1841 and March 1842).

Last updated 16.06.2014