Comment on 14.8.1806
I.e. the letter dated 15.6.1805 from the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen with the appointment of Thorvaldsen to professor after Andreas Weidenhaupt.
It is not known how Abildgaard had got the idea, as indicated below, that Thorvaldsen wanted his salary as professor at the Academy to be paid. In Thorvaldsen’s previous letter he had not asked for his professor salary, to which he was not entitled so long as he stayed in Rome. He only mentioned other financial matters between himself and the Academy / Abildgaard.
In other words, Abildgaard misunderstood Thorvaldsen. The misunderstanding was corrected in Thorvaldsen’s next letter dated 23.9.1806.
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