The Thorvaldsens Museum Archives

Comment on 14.8.1806

Three volumes of the catalogue of the part of the Vatican collections in the so-called Museo Pio-Clementino, established by Clement XIV (1769-1774) and Pius VI (1775-1799). The title of the catalogue is: Il Museo Pio-Clementino, descritto da Giambattista e Ennio Qvirino Visconti, T. I-VI, Roma 1782-96, (copy in Thorvaldsens Museum, M134).
The first time Abildgaard asked for these catalogues was in his letter dated 3.12.1799. In his letter dated 18.6.1806, Thorvaldsen mentioned that he had paid the 80 scudi mentioned for the three volumes.
Thorvaldsen sent the catalogues to Copenhagen in 1802, see letter dated 20.3.1802 and the related article about Transportation of Thorvaldsen’s Artworks to Copenhagen 1798 and 1802.

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