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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
.
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
.
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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
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 They have now been replaced by copies,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.
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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
.
14 4
V IEW FROM LANGELINIE TOW ARD S
NYHOLM BEFORE
18 0 7
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
12
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