1771-72
Sender Johan Nordahl Brun
Recipient Omnes
A patriotic song, “To Norway, the Native Land of Giants”, a manifesto for Norwegian i...
1778
Sender Johannes Ewald
The commentary for this poem is not available at the moment.
16.4.1787
Sender Christian Frederik Høyer
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s certificate of confirmation.
29.4.1788
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Recipient Directionen for de Kongelige Skuespil
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
1791
9.7.1792
Sender Holger Reedtz-Thott
Recipient Det Holstenske Dramatiske Selskab
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
11.8.1793
Sender Johan Hendrich Bärens
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
2.12.1793
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen applies for a grant from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
1.1.1794
Recipient Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
Thorvaldsens sends an excerpt from a poem by the poet Baggesen to Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals.
2.[??].1794
Thorvaldsen apologizes to Kurtzhals because he did not have the time to bid her farewell before s...
8.5.1794
Sender Hans Hansen
Hansen has read a review of Thorvaldsen’s prize-winning relief Peter and John Healing a Lame Man,...
1.1.1795
Recipient Sophie Probsthayn
Thorvaldsen sends a verse of poetry as a New Year’s greeting.
5.1.1795
Thorvaldsen presents the relief Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, to the Royal Academy. He also ap...
23.2.1795
Hansen visits Thorvaldsen in his home at 13 Åbenrå, Copenhagen.
2.11.1795
Thorvaldsen’s application for the travelling scholarship of the Royal Danish Academy of Fin...
9.3.1796
Recipient Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
Song from Thorvaldsen to the newly-married couple Peter Hanning Hammer and Frederike Dorothea Ham...
14.3.1796
Sender Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
29.4.1796
Sender Jørgen West
2.5.1796
Sender Johan Michael Fischer
Sender C. West
5.5.1796
Sender Peter Hanning Hammer
Peter Hanning Hammer is grateful for his friendship with Thorvaldsen. He mentions that Bernhoft h...
17.5.1796
Sender Peder Pavels
24.5.1796
Sender Søren Tybring
4.6.1796
Sender Frederik Arentz Krog
5.6.1796
Sender Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
7.6.1796
Sender Jens Ulstrup
Sender Johanne Ulstrup
13.6.1796
Sender NN
14.6.1796
Sender Severine Elisabet Arnette West
24.6.1796
Sender Peder Horrebow Haste
27.6.1796
Sender Eiler Hagerup Schiøtz
Sandsynligvis 27.6.1796
Dedication in a book.
4.7.1796
Sender Mathias Henrichsen
6.7.1796
Sender Paul Steenstrup
14.7.1796
Sender J.P. Mynster
25.7.1796
Thorvaldsen requests an advance on his travelling scholarship.
29.7.1796
Sender O.H. Mynster
Sandsynligvis august 1796
Sender Elias Johannes Svane von Støcken
15.8.1796
Sender M.F. Liebenberg
20.8.1796
Sender Georg Laub
Sender Hieronymus Laub
23.8.1796
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, København Kunstakademiet, Peter Meyn
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts instructs Thorvaldsen on the terms of his travelling grant....
27.8.1796
Sender H.A. Schmidt
28.8.1796-1.3.1797
Sender Lorens Henrich Fisker
Recipient Charlotte Amalie Fisker
The commentary for these letter fragments is not available at the moment.
Før 30.8.1796
Sender Johannes Kinchel
Farewell greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Sender Nicolai Veisling Mørch
29.10.1796
Recipient H.A. Schmidt
Thorvaldsen goes rowing in the harbour of Valletta while the frigate Theses is in quarantine.
1.11.1796
Short note from Thorvaldsen’s parents to their son.
3.11.1796
Recipient Frederik 6.
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s receipt for the payment of the bust of A.P. Bernstorff, A856, delivered to...
Sender Christian Georg Hansen
16.12.1796
Schmidt tells that Thorvaldsen has made his portrait.
30.12.1796
Sender Claus Hvidtfeldt Blom
Sender G.F. Rørbye
Antagelig efter 1797
Antagelig tidligst 1797
Recipient NN
Januar 1797
Copy of Peder Pavels’ diary and drafts of Thorvaldsen’s diary from Malta 1796-97.
1.1.1797
Sender Andreas Christian Lütken
17.1.-14.2.1797
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
13.2.1797
Thorvaldsen’s first report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since his departure from Cope...
Antagelig marts 1797
Recipient Jørgen West
A sheet with several fragments in Danish, German and Italian. First two drafts of a letter in Ita...
Efter 8.3.1797
A sample of Thorvaldsen’s handwriting with the names “Monradt” and “Thorv...
Efter 9.3.1797
Sender Niels Saabye
1.5.1797
Mathias Henrichsen sends his regards and reports on friends in Copenhagen. He hopes to become a t...
8.5.1797
Sender Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
21.5.1797
Peder Pavels, the chaplain of the Thetis, sends his greetings and reports what has happened on th...
17.7.1797
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen advertises the sale of his son’s bust of A.P. Bernstorff, A856.
14.8.1797
West is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He relates news of family and friends ...
19.8.1797
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he arrived in Rome on March 8, ...
8.9.1797
Sender Georg Zoëga
Recipient Arveprins Frederik
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
24.10.1797
Zoëga sends Thorvaldsen a parcel with some of the clothes the sculptor left behind after his visi...
9.12.1797
Sender Karen Thorvaldsen
Karen Thorvaldsen misses her son greatly. She is unhappy with her life and her husband. He gives ...
Ultimo 1797
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
5.1.1798
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has studied Rome and its sur...
20.1.1798
Antagelig senest januar 1798
Accounts or lists, possibly regarding Agrippa, cf. A759, and other works by Thorvaldsen.
23.3.1798
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
30.6.1798
Thorvaldsen informs the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has sent two samples of his wor...
3.1.1799
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he is still in Rome, and that h...
19.3.1799
Sender København Kunstakademiet
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informs Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolongation of his trave...
Draft letter from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informing Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolo...
20.5.1799
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
12.10.1799
Both Thorvaldsen’s semi-annual report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and the works he w...
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for his support. He tells him that many of the Roman art collection...
3.12.1799
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
Sender Cornelius Høyer, København Kunstakademiet
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has evaluated Thorvaldsen’s Bacchus and Ariadne, A1, and is...
Muligvis omkring 1800
The commentary for this fragment is not available at the moment.
Antagelig efter 1800
Efter 1800
A writing sample.
Efter 1796
Thorvaldsen’s signature and monogram.
Sender Floriano Pietrocola
Muligvis før 1800?
Sender Leonora Christina
Antagelig efter 1810