Comment on 22.10.1808
In draft of 4.2.1809 he again mentions the price of the baptismal font even though he had clearly received the money the same day as the draft was written, cf. the following sentence in the text. The amount is here set at 483 scudi – which is approximately the same since the scudo was worth slightly less than the piastre, see the related article about Monetary Units. The variation in both numbers and monetary units, however, may be due to the difference in time between the two drafts.
See also the general comment regarding Thorvaldsen’s pricing of his own works.
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