23.12.1817
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt is enchanted with the “young female figure”, Goddess of Hope, w...
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has completed Goddess of Hope, A47, which Caroline von Humboldt greatly admires. The ...
15.1.1818
Sender Wilhelm von Humboldt
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt wants Caroline to have Goddess of Hope in marble. He compares Thorvaldsen wi...
28.1.1818
Once more, Caroline von Humboldt praises Thorvaldsen’s latest work, Goddess of Hope, A47.
5.2.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
17.2.1818
During transportation to Berlin, the bust of Wilhelm von Humboldt has been damaged. Caroline von ...
3.3.1818
Thorvaldsen is working hard on another group and a single figure. Caroline von Humboldt has commi...
17.3.1818
Wilhelm von Humboldt is pleased that Caroline has commissioned Goddess of Hope from Thorvaldsen. ...
16.4.1818
Caroline von Humboldt thinks that her husband will like her latest buy. She calls Goddess of Hope...
9.5.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
25.5.1818
Sender Friederike Brun
11.8.1818
Caroline von Humboldt has returned from Rome with a bust that, in her eyes, is still unfinished. ...
27.8.1818
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
29.8.1818
Sender NN
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of August 1818.
26.9.1818
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of September 1818.
7.11.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of November 1818.
16.1.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Janus
1.4.1819
Sender Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Recipient Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop together with Hermann Ernst Freund and admired some of T...
19.5.1819
Scavenius comments on Thorvaldsen’s restoration of the Aegenetes, which have inspired Goddess of ...
22.8.1819
Sender Johann Baptist Bertram
Recipient Sulpiz Boisserée
Thorvaldsen has spent a week in Stuttgart with J.L. Lund in order to study the collection of art ...
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
5.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
Antagelig 1820erne
Sender Melchiorre Missirini
Fragment of a list of works on one of Thorvaldsen’s drawings.
Marts 1827
11.6.1829
Humboldt writes that his wife, Caroline, died in March. She wanted to be buried in the garden of ...
14.7.1829
Sender Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
Bunsen sends a cheque for an outstanding amount from Wilhelm von Humbold, asking Thorvaldsen to s...
10.7.1830
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt den yngre
Humboldt is against his children’s proposal to place Goddess of Hope at the top of the monument t...
16.12.1830
20.5.1831
Sender Karl Wilhelm Wach
Wach writes that today Tieck’s copy of Goddess of Hope has been placed on the top of the granite ...
4.8.1831
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
5.12.1833
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch recommends the bearer of the letter, the German pianist and composer Otto Nicolai, who has ...
September-oktober 1834
Sender Pierre-Jean David d'Angers
D’Angers visits Tegel and is delighted with the beautiful park and Schinkel’s elegant build...
10.3.1836
Sender Marie Lehmann
Recipient Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard has been given a ring by Thorvaldsen.
13.3.1836
Marie Puggaard describes the activities on Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday 8.3.1836, when the guests...
30.7.1838
Sender A. Martini, NN
6.9.1839
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
8.3.1840
Sender Adam Oehlenschläger
A poem to Thorvaldsen on the occasion of his Roman birthday.
1844
Sender NN, Adam Oehlenschläger, H.C. Ørsted