24.10.1800
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen regrets that his report to the Royal Academy has been delayed. He would have liked to...
Tidligst marts 1803, antagelig senest 1805
Sender Patrick Moir
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Patrick Moir requests Thovaldsen’s presence the following morning in order to settle matters rega...
Tidligst 23.3., senest sommer 1803
Sender Finelli & Keller
Thorvaldsen’s contract with the sculptors Pietro Finelli and Heinrich Keller concerning the deliv...
Tidligst 19. og senest 23.3.1803
Recipient Thomas Hope
Transcript of Thomas Hope’s copy of his contract with Thorvaldsen regarding Jason with the Golden...
Juni 1803
Sender Knud Lyne Rahbek
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
2.9.1803
Sender Georg Zoëga
Recipient Herman Schubart
Because of illness, Thorvaldsen has had to have the bas-relief Briseis and Achilles cast before h...
21.1.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart reports on his efforts to obtain commissions for Thorvaldsen from Denmark. Through her h...
Omkring 1.2.1804
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
6.3.1804
Sender Fonden ad usus publicos
The foundation ad usus publicos grants Thorvaldsen 300 Danish rix-dollars due to his progress in ...
Ultimo 1804
Sender Giovanni Battista Pinchart
A bill from the carpenter Pinchart to Thorvaldsen for carpentry done in the period from October 1...
Forår 1805
Sender August von Kotzebue
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Sommer 1805
Sender August Wilhelm Schlegel
Recipient Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Omnes
Schlegel reports to Goethe on the art scene in Rome, summer 1805.The commentary to this document ...
17.6.1805
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
26.7.1805
Schubart is pleased with Thorvaldsen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts...
27.9.1805
Schubart recommends Adam Anthony Stratenus and Cornelius Johannes Kneppelhout to Thorvaldsen.
1806
Sender Carl Ludwig Fernow
The commentary for this text is not available at the moment.
8.4.1806
Moir informs Thorvaldsen on behalf of Thomas Hope that the fourth and last payment for Jason with...
18.6.1806
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
13.9.1806
Sender Pietro Finelli
Receipt from Pietro Finelli confirming the payment of 25 paoli.
31.12.1806
Sender C.F. Hansen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
30.1.1807
Sender C.F. Høyer
Høyer writes that Thorvaldsen has received an instalment of 100 rix-dollars for the portrait bust...
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
21.2.1807
Thorvaldsen has received commissions from C.F. Hansen and the Building Commission for Christiansb...
10.2.1809
Sender Heinrich Kohlrausch
The commentary to this letter is not available at the moment.
20.8.1809
Recipient Theodor von Hahn
Contract between Thorvaldsen and Theodor von Hahn concerning delivery of the marble statue Cupid ...
Efteråret 1809
Sender Adam Oehlenschläger
The commentary for this poem is not available at the moment.
18.6.1811
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch regrets that Thorvaldsen has not yet finished the statues of Cupid Holding a Butterfly to H...
Sandsynligvis 1814
Sender G.L. Lahde, Adam Oehlenschläger
1814
Sender Tønnes Christian Bruun de Neergaard
Januar 1814
Sender Friedrich Karl Ludwig Sickler
7.2.1815
Sender NN
8.9.1817
Sender Theodor von der Ropp
Ropp thanks Thorvaldsen after having received Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Venus with the Appl...
Tidligst 1818
The commentary for this list is not available at the moment.
11.10.1818
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Recipient Frederik Schmidt
13.2.1819
Recipient Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot send Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, to Raczyński as the s...
26.3.1819
Sender Heinrich Keller
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller informs Pfyffer von Altishofen that Thorvaldsen has been ill and therefore has not begun w...
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...
6.4.1819
Sender Thomas Hope
Thomas Hope urges Thorvaldsen to finish and deliver Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissio...
22.5.1819
Keller reports that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion) , cf. cast A119, is nearly finish...
19.6.1819
Keller complains that it is difficult to get Thorvaldsen to complete his work on the model for Dy...
Antagelig 9.7.1819
Sender Luigi Chiaveri
Chiaveri asks Thorvaldsen to speak to Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia as soon as possible regarding Ja...
31.7.1819
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
5.8.1819
Keller is pleased that Thorvaldsen, contrary to expectations, has visited Lucerne on his journey ...
7.8.1819
Keller reports that both models of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, have be...
9.10.1819
15.10.1819
Sender M.F. Liebenberg, Adam Oehlenschläger, Knud Lyne Rahbek
16.10.1819
The commentary for this song is not available at the moment.
1.2.1820
28.2.1820
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
December 1820 - september 1821
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
Maj 1821
Sender Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Torlonia is disappointed that Thorvaldsen has not complied with the agreement to complete Jason w...
12.8.1821
Sender Christian 8.
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
20.8.1821
Torlonia assumes that Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, is ready to be shipped as Thorvaldsen h...
21.8.1821
Recipient Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Thorvaldsen answers Torlonia regarding Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, which is to be deliver...
16.3.1822
Sender Johann Martin von Wagner
Recipient Leo von Klenze
Wagner sums up Schönborn’s possibilities regarding his commission of a Bacchus statue from the la...
19.7.1822
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
December 1823
Sender Nicolay Fürst
15.4.1823
Torlonia has received several letters from Thomas Hope, who is impatient to have the statue of Ja...
6.5.1823
Sender Redaktørerne ved Fyens Stiftstidende
15.11.1823
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
April - juni 1824
Accounts for the roughhewing of the relief Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, A827,
26.4.1824
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
3.7.1824
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
Februar 1825 - marts 1827
9.8.1825
Sender A. Andersen Feldborg
Andersen Feldborg gives Thorvaldsen his book Denmark Delineated, probably @M653.He writes that Ja...
11.3.1826
Sender H.F.J. Estrup
Recipient København Ordenskapitlet
The historian Estrup’s biography of Thorvaldsen for the Chapter of the Royal Orders of Chiv...
12.6.1826
On behalf of Thomas Hope, Torlonia urges Thorvaldsen to finish the statue of Jason with the Golde...
Marts 1827
9.6.1827
13.6.1827
Januar 1828
8.3.1828
Sender Ludvig Bødtcher
Song in six stanzas in the honour of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday. Evan, the god of wine, is invo...
Antagelig august 1828
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
5.9.1828
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
The sculpture of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissioned by Thomas Hope, has been comple...
8.1.1829
Sender Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
3.8.1829
Hope gratefully acknowledges receipt of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, the portrait busts of...
16.3.1830
1831
Sender Rembrandt Peale
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
Antagelig tidligst 14.8., senest omkring 1.12.1831
Sender Giuseppe Mugnoz
Mugnoz asks Thorvaldsen for financial assistance as he is ill and cannot support himself. In retu...
19.11.1831
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dansk Litteratur-Tidende
August 1832
The commentary to this review is not available at the moment.
13.7.1833
Sender Elisa Paulsen
8.3.1834
Sender F.C. Hillerup
19.6.1834
4.1.1835
Sender Redaktørerne ved Søndagsblad
8.3.1836
Sender Heinrich Jakob Fried
18.11.1837
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad
1838
1839
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyt Magasin for Natur og Menneskekundskab
Efter 24.7.1839
Sender N.F.S. Grundtvig
Grundtvig’s prologue explains the occasion of the following song. He sees the prologue as a key t...
24.7.1839
Through the Icelandic legendary figure of Vølund in the song, Grundtvig establishes a connection ...
Vinter 1840-41
Sender Christine Stampe
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 15th part of 60 in all.
1841
Sender August Kopisch
31.1.1842
Sender Ludvig Müller
Recipient Christian 8.
Müller sends a report to Christian 8. on Danish artists in Rome. He gives a detailed description ...
9.4.1844
Sender J.L. Heiberg
J.L. Heiberg’s prologue for the ceremony at the Royal Theatre in Copenhagen 9.4.1844, commemorati...