Makes drawings in collaboration with the sculptor Christian Daniel Rauch for a sepulchral monument to the Briton William Sidney Bowles. The monument still stands in the Protestant cemetery [Cimitero Acattolico], Rome, parte antica, stone 16.

Primary sources

• Notice in Dagen, 31.5.1808.
• Letter dated 15.8.1811 from Christian Daniel Rauch to Caroline von Humboldt.

Other references

• Nicholas Stanley-Price: ‘See Rome – and Die, Legacies of the Grand Tour in a Roman Cemetery’, in: Lisa Colletta (ed.): The Legacy of the Grand Tour: New Essays on Travel, Literature, and Culture, 2016, p. 172, 176, 178.

Last updated 13.02.2020