17.7.1808

Sender

J.L. Lund

Sender’s Location

Rom

Recipient

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient’s Location

Rom

Information on recipient

Ingen udskrift.

Dating based on

Dateringen fremgår af kvitteringen.

Abstract

Lund’s receipt for a loan of 50 scudi from Thorvaldsen

Document

Hr. Thorvaldsen hat die Güte gehabt mir fünfzehn Römische Scudi^I zu leihen, die ich vor Ende der nächsten Monats zurükzuzahlen verspreche.

J.L. Lund

Rom d. 17^te. Juli 1808.

Oversættelse af dokument

Mr Thorvaldsen has been so kind as to lend me fifteen Roman Scudi, which I promise to pay back before the end of next month.

J.L. Lund

Rome, July 17^th 1808

[Translated by Karen Husum]

General Comment

It is not known whether the loan was to cover a specific expense or just Lund’s current expenses.

Archival Reference

Thiele

Subjects

• Loans and Bills of Exchange
• Thorvaldsen's Helpfulness
• Thorvaldsen's Financial Circumstances

Commentaries

1. 50 scudi was quite a large amount of money. By way of comparison, Thorvaldsen paid 30 scudi the same year for 6 months’ rent in the Palazzo Tomati, cf. rent receipts from 8.2.1806-17.12.1809.

   Scudi is the plural form of the Italian monetary unit scudo. Scudo means ‘shield’ in Italian, and the coin was called like that because the authority that had struck the coin often put its escutcheon on it. See the related article on Monetary Units for more about this.

Last updated 10.11.2017