Comment on 24.10.1800
The Danish naval officer Steen Bille, who was commander of a Danish fleet in the Mediterranean 1797-1800. See letter of 10.4.1800 from Poul Scheel, in which he promises Thorvaldsen to contact Captain Bille at Leghorn.
Bille’s departure from Copenhagen is mentioned in Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s brev of 8.5.1797.
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