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lastin g until Struensee stopped them for econom ic rea
sons in 1770 . The engravin g show s the church as it looked
on the approved sketches. It is surrounded b y a sculpture-
crowned w a ll w ith niches and half-colum ns, to a certain
extent rem iniscent o f Bernini's colonnade in St. Peter's
Square in Rome. In the centre of the engravin g the Bern-
storff House connected to the M oltke House b y a long
w all. Imm ediately to the right o f this Jardin's a viary built
1763. O n the far left Am alienborg Square w ith the eque
strian statue b y J. F. J. Saly, w h ich had not been put up
yet. It m ay be seen that the v iew has some o f the charac
teristics of a plan just like there is som ething unreal about
the v ery openness of the perspective - for betw een A m a
lienborg Square and the Frederiks Church there were the
Levetzau and D ehn Houses and the w hole of Frederiks-
gade.
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AM A L IEN BO R G SQU ARE 176 6
The octagonal m onum ental square constitutes the centre
of the Frederiksstad, a neighbourhood w hich in the years
after 174 9 w as built on the site o f the burnt-down Sophie
Am alienborg (see cat. nos. 48 -49). N icolai Eigtved w as
responsible for the tow n planning as w ell as the archi
tecture of the facades. O n the short axis, Frederiksgade,
stands the Frederiks Church after Jardin's unfinished plan.
The existing domed church w as not built until the end of
the 19th century. The artist has p artly "dem olished" the
houses in the foreground in order to provide a better view ,
but he also took the liberty to put pilasters instead of
Eigtved's characteristic pilaster strips w ith "ears". The
fountains and groups of figures at the base o f the eque
strian statue belong to S aly's sketch, but they were not
realised w hen the monum ent w as fin a lly set up in 1768.
Reproduced p. 67.
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V IEW FROM LANGEBRO c. 176 7
The v iew is taken from Langebro bridge w h ich w as con
structed in 1690, since then replaced several times. One
looks across tow ards the Frederiksholm s C anal with the
A rsen al to the left and the B rewhouse to the right. The
draw ing is not easily dated since the artist chose the same
m otifs m an y tim es; the same m otif on a sm aller scale is
in the C ity Museum .
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THE BREWHOU SE O F CH R IST IA N IV c. 1767
The view is from the A rsen al w hose buildin gs can be seen
on the left-hand side. From out here one gets a good im
pression o f the broad end o f the Brewhouse and its
ground-plan the p ecu liarity o f w h ich is due to the original
use of the buildin g as a bastion (see cat. no. 1 1 1 ) .
Reproduced p. 69.
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THE BREWHOU SE OF CH R IST IAN IV c. 1767
The Brewhouse is seen from the Frederiksholms Canal.
The crane in the foreground belongs to the Arsenal. The
Brewhouse itself o rigin ally served as a bastion built 1606-
09 b y Christian IV (see cat. no. 4 on the far left). 1616
the construction o f gables and roof w as begun and then
the bu ilding w as converted into a brew ery. This function
ended after a fire in 17 6 7 , after w h ich it w as, admittedly,
reconstructed in the same shape, but o n ly to be turned
into a w arehouse for the N a vy. There exists a prepatory
draw ing for the gouache that together w ith a watercolour
depicting the fire in 17 6 7 is in the C ity Museum. The
inner coherence betw een these sheets is not unambiguous.
In 176 5 Lund returned after a lon g jou rn ey abroad, and
it is possible that the draw in g o f the Brewhouse was done
after his return, but before the fire.
Reproduced p. 00.
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PERSPECTIVE M A P O F CO PENH AG EN 1768
This map is one o f the tw o alm ost identical maps of Co
penhagen w h ich are in the R oyal Library. T hey were both
im itations of engravin gs done b y a certain P. Bansen,
about w hom w e o n ly k n ow that he w as not a military
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