Comment on 28.7.1805
This portfolio is not known today. Thorvaldsen had asked about it in his letter of 6.8.1804, and Abildgaard had answered on 31.1.1805 that he knew nothing about it.
The portfolio was sent in one of the crates which had been sent on board the frigate Triton from Leghorn to Copenhagen in 1802 and was mentioned in Thorvaldsen’s letter of 4.4.1800.
The portfolio had by mistake been given to Friedrich Münter but was intended for Jørgen West. It appears from a later letter of 19.10.1805 that the portfolio had ended up with Münter’s sister Friederike Brun, who at Abildgarrd’s request gave it up to Jørgen West.
In letter of 11.3.1803, West mentions that he had not received anything from Italy at that time.
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