Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rom
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Antagelig København
Pga. de tegnede skitser på samme ark kan udkastet dateres tidligst 1807-1810. Hvis formodningen om, at modtageren er den danske læge Poul Scheel, holder, skal dateringen formentlig sættes til tidligst 1812, jf. den generelle kommentar.
Thorvaldsen admits that the addressee has every reason to be angry with him.
[Øverst til venstre på arket:]
Gode VenI! Jeg griber denne Leglighed at skrive et Par Linier i Hr StubbsII BrevIII da jeg ikke ved D[eres] Addresse[.] De har Aarsag at være vred paa mig
[Forneden til højre på samme ark ses ulæselige påskrifter på hovedet i forhold til ovenstående:]
[papiret mangler] [x]
[papiret mangler] [vxx]
[papiret mangler] [mit?]
[papiret mangler] [sende? x]
[papiret mangler] Venskab [hxx]
[at the top left on the sheet:]
Good friend! I seize this opportunity to write a couple of lines in Mr Stub’s letter, as I do not know your address. You have reason to be angry with me
[at the bottom right on the same sheet there are illegible notes turned upside down:]
[paper is missing] [x]
[paper is missing] [vxx]
[paper is missing] [mine?]
[paper is missing] [sende? x]
[paper is missing] Friendship [hxx]
[Translated by Karen Husum]
The recipient of this letter draft has not been positively identified. However, several things indicate that it may be the Danish doctor Poul Scheel and a date around 1812:
All things considered, it seems reasonable that the draft was intended for Poul Scheel and therefore is about the delayed delivery of the bust, commissioned in 1800, of the obstetrician Mathias Saxtorph, cf. A899, and the related article Saxtorph’s Bust.
A piece of the sheet has been torn off so that a good deal of text is missing from the bottom half. The remaining words cannot be deciphered with certainty. To study the text, click on “See original”. It is not known whether this bit of text has any connection with draft above.
It is not known whether the paper has been torn due to (self-)censorship because of the contents of the draft. See other examples of censorship and read more about this in connection with Thorvaldsen in the related articles Censorship and History of the Archives.
Liggende Venus. Jupiter. Dødens genius eller Amor. Fragment af selvportræt, 1807 - 1810, inv.nr. C141v |
Last updated 10.08.2018
The recipient has not been positively identified. It might be the Danish doctor Poul Scheel, cf. the general comment.
Possibly the Danish painter C.G. Kratzenstein Stub, cf. the general comment.
This letter has not been identified.