15.9.1840

Sender

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sender’s Location

København

Recipient

Christine Stampe

Recipient’s Location

Nysø

Dating based on

Dateringen fremgår af brevet.

Abstract

Thorvaldsen accompanies Jens Arenholt Gottfred Hartmann and Wilhelm Matthiä to the Custom House, from where the steamboat to Lübeck sails. He visits the Royal Theatre the same evening.

Document

Kjøbenhavn den 15 Sep 1840

Carissima Amica!

Hartmann^I og Mathie^II er Rejst med Dampbaaden i gaar^III til Lybech, og jeg fulde Dem til Tolboden^IV. Det regnede meget stærkt og Regnbuen var paa Himmelen, som den Dag^V jeg ankom til Kjøbenhavn. I Gaaraftenns^VI var jeg paa Teaterret^VII og hvem saa jeg der var Genneral den tykke^VIII fra [...]

Oversættelse af dokument

Copenhagen, September 15^th 1840

Carissima Amica,

Hartmann and Mathie have yesterday left for Lübeck by the steamboat and I saw them to the Toldboden. It was pouring down and there was a rainbow in the sky, as on the day, when I arrived in Copenhagen. Last night I was in the theater and whom did I see there but the fat general from […]

[Translated by Karen Husum]

General Comment

The letter has been cut. It is not known by whom or when.

Document Type

Archival Reference

Thiele

Subjects

• Natural Phenomena around Thorvaldsen
• Accounts of Journeys
• Thorvaldsen and Theater

Persons

• Jens Arenholt Gottfred Hartmann
• Wilhelm Matthiä

Commentaries

1. The Danish doctor Jens Arenholt Gottfred Hartmann.

2. The German sculptor Wilhelm Matthiä.

3. Cf. the Thorvaldsen chronology 14.9.1840.

4. The Custom House in Copenhagen.

5. Cf. the Thorvaldsen chronology 17.9.1838.

6. Cf. the Thorvaldsen chronology 14.9.1840.

7. I.e. the Royal Theatre, Copenhagen. They performed, cf. Dansk Forfatterleksikon:

   • The comedy Mester Gert Westphaler or Den meget talende Barber by Ludvig Holberg (1684-1754).
   • The ballad opera Fra Diavolo or Værtshuset i Terracina by Daniel-François-Esprit Auber (1782-1871) and Eugène Scribe (1791-1861).

8. The fat general has not been identified.

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