On the initiative of Mihael Pregl, an ardent administrator of the property of the Order of the Cross, there was a meeting held by some friends of the deceased Matija Cop (d. in 1835) on 29 April 1838. The discussed what kind of memorial (tomb stone) should be erected in Cop’s memory. The painter Matevž Langus was also present. The first draft of the memorial can be found in Langus’s sketch-book (The National Gallery, Inv. No. 139) as it was later -with minor changes- realized by 1840. It is shaped in a classicistic form. It seems probably that Langus made a portrait, a drawing of Langus, on his death-bed (The Sketch-Book, Inv. No. 136). — It is also likely that Langus made a design of a memorial dedicated to a Polish political internee, Emil Korytko (The Sketch-Book, Inv. No. 140). — With the money that has been left from this collection for Cop’s monument, the older memorial of the playwright A. T. Linhart and poet V. Vodnik, were also repaired.