Comment on 13.7.1804
I.e. Signora Anna Maria Uhden, Thorvaldsen’s lover for many years. It is not known whether Thorvaldsen managed to see her during his brief stay in Rome on his way from Naples to Florence. If he did not (or deliberately omitted it), she had not seen him since his departure for Naples in the middle of April of that year. No sent letters have been preserved from him to her in the period April-6.8.1804, and the contents of both drafts and letters from this summer indicate that he did not write to her, see e.g. letter dated 6.8.1804 and draft dated probably the middle of July 1804. Her request for a piece of red Marocchino for shoes, cf. below in Lund’s letter, could be an indication that they had seen each other in Rome before his departure for Florence. However, this request might just as well have been expressed before his departure for Naples.
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