23.12.1812
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Chrystian Piotr Aigner
This contract binds Thorvaldsen to execute two six-foot-tall caryatids with matching capital and ...
5.4.1813
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen is working on two caryatids, A55 and A56, which are to flank a plaque that commemorat...
December 1817
Sender Lauritz Kruse
Recipient Omnes
A prospectus in which Kruse invites his fellow countrymen to contribute to the acquisition of Tho...
1.1.1818
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...
Efter 1.1.1818
A prospectus in German in which Kruse invites his Danish-German fellow countrymen in Schleswig, H...
31.1.1818
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
7.4.1818
Sender Christian 8.
For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
9.5.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
20.6.1818
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
Frederik 6. commissions the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christiansborg Palace.
Copy of the letter dated 20.6.1818.
1.8.1818
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the commission for the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christi...
Second draft of letter dated 1.8.1818.
Third draft of letter dated 1.8.1818.
24.8.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Wiener Zeitung
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
11.10.1818
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Recipient Frederik Schmidt
31.10.1818
Sender NN
Workshop accounts for the fifth week of October 1818.
7.11.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of November 1818.
29.11.1818
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of November 1818.
5.12.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of December 1818.
6.2.1819
Workshop accounts for the first week of February 1819.
14.2.1819
Workshop accounts for the second week of February 1819.
Juli 1819 - januar 1823
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
2.10.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
3.12.1819
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
27.12.1819
An account of the meeting in Copenhagen on 24.11.1819, in which Thorvaldsen promised the Building...
25.5.1820
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
22.11.1826
The Building Commission for Christainsborg Palace wants to know which works will be ready to be s...
24.11.1826
Sender C.F. Hansen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
28.11.1826
Sender Kirkebygningskommissionen
The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, is looking forward to receiving ...
4.2.1827
Thorvaldsen writes which works will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827.
Senest 4.2.1827
Third draft letter dated 4.2.1827.
First draft letter dated 4.2.1827.
Thorvaldsen sends a list of the works that can be ready for transportation to Denmark in the spri...
Fifth draft letter dated 4.2.1827.
Second draft letter dated 4.2.1827.
First and second draft letters dated 4.2.1827.
Third and final draft letter dated 4.2.1827.
Fourth draft letter dated 4.2.1827.
7.2.1827
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827. Extr...
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Senest 12.2.1827
Recipient Kirkebygningskommissionen
Draft of the letter dated 12.2.1827.
12.2.1827
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827 and c...
17.3.1827
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
Sender Johan Gunder Adler
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is informed that the frigate which was to transport several of Thorvaldsen’s works t...
7.5.1827
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
22.5.1827
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
6.6.1827
The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen seize the opportunity to have th...
22.6.1827
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich lists the works of art for the Church of Our Lady and Christiansborg Palace which the merc...
27.7.1827
Sender Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
17.9.1827
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
1.12.1827
The ship owner L.N. Hvidt has informed the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace that the...
4.12.1827
The merchant ship Therese arrived in Tunis on 28.10.1827 and may soon be expected at Leghorn. As ...
19.1.1828
Specification of Thorvaldsen’s expenses for storage, crates, and packing in connection with...
12.4.1829
Sender N.C.L. Abrahams
Abrahams makes sarcastic remarks about the lack of real news from Copenhagen; the marriage betwee...
16.4.1834
Thorvaldsen is in bed with a severe cold. The last five pieces of the Alexander Frieze are now re...
Recipient Jonas Collin
Thorvaldsen itemizes his bill for works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lady and ...
12.5.1834
Sender Jonas Collin
Recipient Københavns Universitet, Slotsbygningskommissionen
Draft of letters to Copenhagen University and to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palac...
16.8.1834
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
8.12.1838
Recipient NN
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
1844
Sender NN, Adam Oehlenschläger, H.C. Ørsted