Thorvaldsen and Christine Stampe burn “quite a few” of the sculptor’s “old things” in his rooms in Rome – probably letters and drawings.

Primary sources

• Rigmor Stampe (ed.): Baronesse Stampes Erindringer om Thorvaldsen, Copenhagen 1912, p. 155 (the same kind of destruction by fire took place probably August 1840, the end of April 1841, and the end of March 1842).

Last updated 15.04.2016