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richly decorated. The pavilions were meant to be shops, an idea that never really caught on. The corner house from 1801 does not resemble the house in Bundsen's drawing very much. Reproduced p. 8 6 .

appeared. A t the ramp of the Stock Exchange we see Petz- holt's two sculptures in limestone from 1 7 4 4 , Neptune and Mercury. They have now been replaced by copies, while the disintegrated originals are in the City Museum.

143 ST. ANN A : SQUARE 1806 The long, narrow square was laid out during the building of the Frederiksstad in the years after 1 7 4 9 . Until then, a canal (see cat. no. 48 ) took up the space on the left-hand side of the picture, while the rest was called St. Annae Street. The two low buildings to the left of the centre are Eigtved's work, while those flanking them were designed by J. H. Rawert about 180 0 . The opposite end of the square is dominated by the Garrison Church (see cat. no. 90 ), standing behind the long churchyard wall. The portal had in 1 7 7 3 been replaced by a new simpler one. 18 53 the wall was replaced by the still existing fence at the same time as the square was rebuilt, and this together with the trees that were planted, gave it a promenade-like quality. Reproduced p. 88 . Eckersberg's very precise drawing of the view over the harbour with Nyholm in the background has on the far left the tall flag mast on the Sixtus battery; it had been completed in 174 8 and named after Christian VI. In the naval harbour the dismantled ships. Reproduced p. 89 . 14 5 KONGENS NYTORV W ITH THE M A IN GUARD 18 0 7 Contrary to earlier artists Eckersberg chose to draw only a small segment of the Kongens Nytorv (the King's new square). It is no longer the whole square which is of interest, but the masses of buildings and the figures cross­ ing the square. The Main Guard was built 1 7 2 3 -2 4 by 14 4 V IEW FROM LANGELINIE TOW ARD S NYHOLM BEFORE 18 0 7

14 1 N YTORV A N D GAMM ELTORV c. 18 0 6 The square is here seen from the south on a market day sometime between 18 0 5 , when the foundation stone for C. F. Hansen's Town Hall and Court House (on the left) was laid, and September 1 8 0 7 , when the English bombs destroyed the spire of Vor Frue kirke (the Church of Our Lady). In the foreground on the left the fenced-in build­ ing site (for the Town Hall and Court House) with work­ men's sheds and scaffolds. It is most likely a summer day in 1806 , the Caritas well is playing, people are lightly dressed, and a great many awnings are out against the strong sun-shine. The engraving is full of good details. Nytorv was the meat market of the Capital, and we see a number of loaded farmers' carts. Three pumps had been put up along the square and at the southern end there was an especially stately pump house, from which the water came spouting out from lions' heads. The square was on all sides bordered by handsome private houses, recently built after the fire in 1 7 9 5 . The second house on the right (Nytorv no. 5 ) had been designed by N. A .

Abildgaard 1 7 9 9 . Reproduced p. 8 7 .

142 THE PALACE SQUARE 180 6 Eckersberg wanted to reproduce the things he saw as ac­ curately as possible, and, indeed, his representation of the Palace Square bears greater similarity to reality than any earlier pictures such as for instance Lund's (cat. no. 1 1 5 ). The ornamental figures are reproduced in the right pro­ portions, and almost all the buildings stand like they do to-day, with the exception of the Bank which has dis­

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