The Henson Journals

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Thursday, August 31st, 1911. Copenhagen.

A beautiful day, but a bite in the air foretells winter. We began with the Rosenborg Palace, 'an effective Renaissance edifice erected by Christian IV in 1610–25'. It is full of treasures, some valuable, many curious, still more neither valuable nor curious. A prettily planned garden surrounds the building. Next, we visited the Art Museum, which is filled with modern Danish Sculpture, & Painting, the first wonderfully good, the last as wonderfully bad. Mostly the native artists exhibit a 'corrupt following' of the corrupt model of the French. But the statuary is very good indeed, immensely better than anything we produce in England. After lunch we visited the Vor–Frue–Kirke, & looked at the Thorwaldseu statues – Christ & the Apostles – standing round the Church. After tea we went by Tram to Fredericksberg–Have, & saw a rather disappointing Zoo, set in an admirable Park. After dinner I wrote to Mary Scott: & sent a card to Marcus Radcliffe.