27.7.1827
Sender Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
29.8.1827
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Ditlev Martens
Thorvaldsen bears witness to Martens’ diligence and talent and warmly recommends him for fi...
Antagelig 1828
Recipient Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen regrets that the Danish painter Andreas Ludvig Koop has not been admitted as a member...
11.1.1828
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The crates with Thorvaldsens art works has arrived in Leghorn. They have been reloaded on a Danis...
19.1.1828
Specification of Thorvaldsen’s expenses for storage, crates, and packing in connection with...
2.2.1828
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
Thorvaldsen requests information about the execution of the figure of Christ in Carrara. Freund i...
6.2.1828
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
26.5.1828
Antagelig 26.6.1828
Sender H.W. Bissen
Bissen recounts his journey on foot to Florence and mentions that he has seen Thorvaldsen’s Chris...
5.2.1829
Recipient Kirkebygningskommissionen
Recipient Ove Malling
25.4.1829
4.5.1829
Sender Christian Horneman
Hornemann reports the latest gossip from the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and about their m...
9.5.1829
Recipient Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen announces that he now needs some of the 9000 Roman scudi which Christian (8.) Frederi...
Senest 9.5.1829
Third and last draft of the letter dated 9.5.1829.
First and second draft of the letter dated 9.5.1829.
20.5.1829
Hornemann recommends the composer Frølich, who intends to spend a year in Italy. He does not like...
Antagelig 1830
Recipient Jonas Collin
Thorvaldsen asks Jonas Collin to help the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop financially.
1830'erne
Efter 25.3.1830
8.8.1830
Recipient Omnes
Draft of a paragraph in Thorvaldsen’s first testament.
The commentary for this testament is not available at the moment.
26.10.1830
Sender J.C. Dahl
Thorvaldsen’s bust of Dahl, A229, has finally arrived in Dresden. Dahl writes that a crate with t...
1.11.1830
Recipient Frederik 6.
Thorvaldsen recommends the history painter Andreas Ludvig Koop to the King and suggests that he b...
26.2.1831
Recipient J.C. Dahl
9.6.1831
Sender H.C. Andersen
Recipient H.C. Andersen
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
27.6.1831
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
25.9.1831
Andersen has seen a portrait of Thorvaldsen in Milan.
29.10.1831
Recipient Troels Lund
Efter 1832
15.5.1832
A greeting and a recommendation of Mandelsloh.
Tidligst 21.5.1832
8.8.1832
Recipient Danske Kancelli
10.8.1832
Recipient NN, Fritz Paulsen
A written declaration, in which Thorvaldsen promises to give his daughter Elisa in marriage to Fr...
24.11.1832
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for two letters from the Building Commission for Christiansbo...
Recipient Charlotte Frederikke
Thorvaldsen thanks Charlotte Frederikke for his pleasant stay at Vicenza and for her motherly sol...
15.1.1833
Thorvaldsen asks permission to adopt his daughter Elisa so that she will obtain the same rights a...
29.3.1833
Thorvaldsen confirms receipt of the letter announcing that a naval vessel will arrive at Leghorn ...
Draft of the letter dated 29.3.1833.
6.4.1833
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
16.5.1833
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen thanks Hansen for his letters in which he mentions the pleasure, expressed by many pe...
14.6.1833
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen is grateful for his appointment as director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen...
Recipient Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab
4.10.1833
H.C. Andersen describes his visit to the marble quarries at Carrara.
5.10.1833
Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to ...
10.10.1833
Andersen has heard that Thorvaldsen is stingy.
18.10.1833
Andersen attends the reburial of Raphael in the Pantheon, where he sees Thorvaldsen for the first...
19.10.1833
Andersen visits Thorvaldsen for the first time in Rome. He seeks him in vain in his workshop but ...
21.10.1833
Andersen has visited Christen Christensen, who is working on a portrait of Thorvaldsen, and in Al...
23.10.1833
Andersen has visited Princess Charlotte Frederikke in order to read aloud from his dramatic poem ...
26.10.1833
Thorvaldsen regrets that he has not yet begun his planned journey to Copenhagen; the work on the ...
Thorvaldsen asks Collin to help him deposit a sum of 20,000 species [40,000 rix-dollars] in the N...
27.10.1833
Andersen has visited St. Peter’s Basilica, where he saw Thorvaldsen’s monument to Pius 7., cf. A1...
7.11.1833
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshops and seen Psyche in plaster, A26, and George Gordon B...
18.11.1833
Andersen describes a Ponte Molle party that he attended with Thorvaldsen and other German and Sca...
26.11.1833
Andersen describes Pope Leo XII’s visit to Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Piazza Barberini on St. Luk...
21.12.1833
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of the report on the arrival of his works of art in Copenhagen w...
16.4.1834
Thorvaldsen is in bed with a severe cold. The last five pieces of the Alexander Frieze are now re...
Thorvaldsen itemizes his bill for works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lady and ...
Antagelig 21.6.1834
By mistake, the Roman postal services have delayed delivery of some of Thorvaldsen’s letters. The...
21.6.1834
Thorvaldsen thanks the Academy of Fine Arts for the information that he has been awarded the Silv...
7.8.1834
Thorvaldsen’s departure for Denmark is delayed, so he asks Freund to give him a detailed report o...
28.8.1834
2.9.1834
5.10.1834
Recipient Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
A written confirmation that two works of art in Thorvaldsen’s collection in Copenhagen – the pain...
26.12.1834
6.2.1835
Elisa Paulsen’s dowry has been arranged through Jonas Collin. Among Thorvaldsen’s artworks transp...
11.5.1835
Recipient Universitetsdirektionen
11.6.1835
14.12.1835
A recommendation of the sculptor Wolf von Hoyer and news about Dahl’s failing health.
11.2.1836
Recipient Peter Mikael Sällström
Thorvaldsen recommends the Swedish painter Carl Gustaf Plagemann.
18.6.1836
Recipient J.F. Schouw
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
20.9.1836
Recipient Conrad Hinrich Donner
The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.
18.3.1837
24.10.1837
Antagelig 1838
Recipient NN
Efter 1838
20.1.1838
19.3.1838
The commentary for this dedication is not available at the moment.
10.4.1838
10.5.1838
Antagelig 15.5.1838
A crossed-out memorandum.
19.5.1838
Omkring 1.7.1838
Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot travel to Denmark after all. He has been robbed during the pac...
25.7.1838
A Danish translation of the Italian draft of Thorvaldsen’s “secret” codicil dated 25.7.1838.
Efter 10.9.1838
Sender NN, Bertel Thorvaldsen
Samples of Thorvaldsen’s handwriting on a letter written by an unknown sender.
24. og 28. september 1838
Sender Johan Wilhelm Negithon
Two testimonials declaring that Johan Wilhelm Negithon and his family are very poor and needy.
9.10.1838
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Eckersberg sends a sketch of the painting Thorvaldsen’ Arrival in the Copenhagen Roadstead, Septe...
25.10.1838
Recipient Comitteen for Oprettelsen af Thorvaldsens Museum
Antagelig omkring november-december 1838
Recipient Københavns Magistrat
Antagelig november 1838
November 1838
3.12.1838
Negithon asks Thorvaldsen for help to buy a case of mechanical drawing tools, either new or used.