2.12.1793
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen applies for a grant from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
9.12.1797
Sender Karen Thorvaldsen
Recipient Bertel 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...
Antagelig senest januar 1798
Accounts or lists, possibly regarding Agrippa, cf. A759, and other works by Thorvaldsen.
30.6.1798
Thorvaldsen informs the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has sent two samples of his wor...
20.5.1799
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
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...
4.4.1800
Thorvaldsen is delighted that the work he has sent to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has w...
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
Thorvaldsen’s parents are delighted with the latest letter from their son, especially because a f...
21.7.1800
Abildgaard relates that some people in Copenhagen have accused Thorvaldsen of being lazy in Rome,...
24.10.1800
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
20.5.1801
Sender Poul Scheel
Scheel thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted his assignment. He further specifies his order for ...
4.10.1801
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that the last instalment of his travelling grant has been sent to ...
25.1.1802
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich has received Thorvaldsen’s letters, but his two crates have not yet arrived at Leghorn. Ul...
Primo februar 1802
Recipient Johan Hartvig Ernst von Berger
Thorvaldsen is happy that Captain Berger has accepted to ship the four crates containing artworks...
20.3.1802
Thorvaldsen reports that Captain Berger has agreed to ship five crates with artworks, books etc. ...
Antagelig april 1802
Recipient Jørgen West
Thorvaldsen complains that he has not received any letter for a long time.
10.5.1802
Thorvaldsen asks Berger to remove the marble bust of Edmund Bourke, A900, from one of the crates ...
18.4.1803
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
9.5.1803
24.5.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley informs Thorvaldsen about his illness. He has to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. ...
1.11.1803
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
17.1.1804
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
25.2.1804
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has left him incapable of wor...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has...
Third draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
28.2.1804
Stanley is recovering from his illness and has visited Schubart, who has informed him of the deat...
5.4.1804
Stanley has been well and ill by turns all winter. He will not be able to come to Rome until he h...
10.4.1804
Stanley is not sure if Thorvaldsen received his last letter and writes more or less the same thin...
Medio april 1804
Recipient Fonden ad usus publicos
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the grant which has encouraged him while he was suffering from low sp...
6.8.1804
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks ...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard how devastated he was when he received the ...
Recipient J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen thanks Lund for having assisted him in a financial matter but asks him not to give an...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard that he is going to Carrara with Herman Sc...
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
28.12.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...
29.12.1804
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
31.1.1805
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
9.3.1805
Stanley suggests having Gotskalk Thorvaldsen admitted to Vartov, an institution for the poor. Sta...
18.6.1805
Sender C.F. Stanley
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
1.7.1805
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
19.7.1805
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
28.7.1805
Draft: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the...
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the autumn...
30.9.1805
Schubart apologizes for not having written for a long time. Stanley is welcome to send him his le...
19.10.1805
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
10.11.1805
11.11.1805
Schubart writes that he has forwarded Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
Ultimo maj eller primo juni 1806
Sender Johan Christian Meldal
18.6.1806
Sentences and fragments of a letter, see the general comment.
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
Draft letter dated 18.6.1806.
8.8.1806
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
14.8.1806
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...
6.9.1806
Sender C.F. Høyer
23.9.1806
Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the Museo Pio Clementino. He ...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the ...
18.11.1806
Efter 15.6.1807
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Draft: Thorvaldsen refuses to execute the statues of Solon and Lycurgus for the town hall and cou...
4.7.1807
27.12.1807
21.5.1808
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
4.12.1808
18.2.1809
3.3.1809
28.3.1809
4.8.1809
Antagelig 7.6.1810
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient Hans West
Efter 28.7.1810
Recipient Poul Scheel
Thorvaldsen responds to Poul Scheel’s cancellation of the commission for the bust of the Doctor S...
4.9.1810
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund’s travel experiences on his return to Denmark after eight years in Rome. He asks Thorv...
13.3.1811
20.3.1812
Sender Peder Malling
Recipient Christian 8.
5.9.1812
10.7.1814
Sender Juliane Marie Abildgaard
Januar 1815
Sender Friederike Brun
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
14.9.1816
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
23.4.1818
Sender Peder Hjort
The commentary for this article is not available at the moment.
December 1823
Sender Nicolay Fürst
25.4.1829
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
19.11.1831
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dansk Litteratur-Tidende
23.10.1835
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen, Peder Malling
ca. 1839
Sender Redaktørerne ved Danmarks Hæder i Fortid og Nutid
12.10.1841
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
31.3.1844 & 4.4.1844
Sender N.L. Høyen
April 1844
Sender Frederik Hammerich
11.4.1844
Sender E.A. Hagen
8.5.1844
Sender NN
10.5.1844
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dansk Ugeskrift, N.L. Høyen
December 1847
1849
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
1850
Sender J.C. Riise
20.12.1850
Sender Redaktørerne ved Fædrelandet
1855
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nordisk universitets-tidsskrift
7.4.1855
Sender Redaktørerne ved For tre Skilling