6.3.1797
Sender Ernst Morace
Recipient Giuseppe Carnesecca
Letter of recommendation for Thorvaldsen from E. Morace in Naples to Giuseppe Carnesecca in Rome.
8.5.1797
Sender Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
23.3.1798
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
26.3.1798
Sender Charles Bassi
Due to language difficulties, Bassi’s letter has been delayed. He asks Thorvaldsen to press one R...
20.5.1799
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
4.4.1800
Thorvaldsen’s parents are delighted with the latest letter from their son, especially because a f...
16.3.1801
Sender J.C. Ulrich
J.C. Ulrich reports that the two crates Thorvaldsen has inquired about are withheld in the bankru...
13.4.1801
Ulrich has negotiated with the shipping firm of Jaume & Schwarz regarding Thorvaldsen’s two c...
27.4.1801
In continuation of his earlier letters, Ulrich reports that he is not able to redeem Thorvaldsen’...
11.5.1801
Ulrich has redeemed the two crates Thorvaldsen sent to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts from...
4.5.1804
Sender Fyodor Matveyev
The Russian painter Fyodor Matveyev forwards a letter from Countess Irina Vorontsova, who through...
5.6.1807
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart invites Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero and suggests a trip to Carrara.
Kort efter 31.10.1807
Sender Johan Georg Wahl
Wahl relates his journey from Rome to Pisa via Florence. He writes that the Schubarts are very di...
18.1.1808
Schubart thanks Thorvaldsen for his birthday present, the drawing Mary with Jesus and John. He h...
3.6.1808
Schubart invites Thorvaldsen to travel to Montenero, hopefully in the company of Ernst Gottlob Ma...
12.8.1808
Schubart invites Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero and then accompany him, Jacqueline Schubart, an...
26.5.1810
Wahl gives a cheerful description of his journey to Montenero via Pisa. His health has improved a...
26.10.1810
Sender Hans West
Recipient C.F. Høyer, Bertel Thorvaldsen
West tells Thorvaldsen and Høyer about his journey from Rome to Florence. The letter deals primar...
3.2.1811
West writes in an attempt to stop the shipment of the works he has commissioned from Thorvaldsen,...
5.3.1811
This cutting is from a newspaper describes Hans West’s art collection in Copenhagen as a meeting ...
2.4.1811
Sender Wilhelm von Huth
Huth writes that it has been good for him to be in Naples, and that he is comfortable with Marian...
10.7.1811
Sender C.G. Kratzenstein Stub
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
3.9.1811
Sender Wilhelm Malte Putbus
7.9.1811
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Humboldt recommends the Prince of Anhalt-Pleß. She misses Rome. She writes about the development ...
22.9.1811
Sender C.R.W. Wiedemann
12.5.1812
Sender Carl Gustav Inn- und Knyphausen
2.12.1815
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
10.3.1817
Sender Leo von Klenze
1.7.1817
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
Mokronowski thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commission for the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
5.5.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Maria Koch
Koch informs his sister of his future address at Thorvaldsen’s place in Rome.
4.11.1818
18.4.1819
18.11.1820
Recipient Simon Christian Pontoppidan
29.10.1821
18.9.1824
Sender N.C. Hansen
19.6.1827
Sender N.P. Holbech
16.4.1829
Sender Hieronymus Hess
30.1.1830
Sender Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
8.3.1830
Sender F.C. Hillerup
Recipient Omnes
A drinking song in six stanzas in the form of an imaginary journey to Rome, written on the occasi...
17.6.1831
Sender Fritz Paulsen
An invitation to join a large party of Danes the same night for a visit to the Vatican, where the...
8.3.1834
Sender Christian Winther
A song in nine stanzas in the form of an imaginary journey to Rome. You should drink wine and let...
8.3.1835
Sender H.C. Andersen
A song composed for the celebration of Thorvaldsen’s Roman birthday in Copenhagen.
10.12.1835
Sender Jan Nepomucen Głowacki
30.4.1836
Sender Marie Lehmann, Bolette Puggaard, Hans Puggaard
The Puggaard family have arrived in Naples, where they have beautiful lodgings with a view of Ves...
28.1.1837
19.12.1837
Sender Hans Puggaard
Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen. He reminds him to send the marble relief The Gra...
30.3.1839
Sender Jonas Collin
Recipient Johan Bravo
September 1841
Sender Christine Stampe
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 32th part of 60 in all.
Ca. maj-juni 1842
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 41th part of 60 in all.
7.6.1842
Sender J.F. Schouw
22.6.1842
Sender Christian Dalgas
Dalgas encloses a letter from Copenhagen to Thorvaldsen. The frigate Thetis has left sooner than ...
29.6.1842
Dalgas writes that the Frigate Thetis will probably arrive at Leghorn earlier than expected. Ther...
1.7.1842
Sender C.F. Holbech
Recipient Christine Stampe
Holbech’s report on Thorvaldsen’s life at the end of June 1842.
25.9.1842
Dalgas invites Thorvaldsen to come to Leghorn on his way back to Denmark.
26.9.1842
Holbech’s report on Thorvaldsen’s life July and August 1842.
22.2.1844
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient C.F. Holbech
Plans for travelling from Copenhagen via Paris to Rome
13.5.1844
Sender Johan Bravo
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
18.5.1844
22.6.1844
2.2.1861
1875 (1833-34)
Sender Ludvig Zeuthen
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.