3.6.1817

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt

Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...

31.12.1817

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia

Sommariva authorizes his banker to pay Thorvaldsen a total of 14,000 scudi in instalments of the ...

1.1.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva regarding the marble version of the frieze Alexan...

1.1.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Copy of the contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva concerning the marble version of the ...

1.1.1818

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt

Count Sommariva has commissioned the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon in marble fr...

2.1.1818 - 17.12.1825

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Giovanni Battista Sommariva

List of Sommariva’s payments to Thorvaldsen for the marble version of Alexander the Great’s Entr...

2.1.1818

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch

Thorvaldsen har endelig modtaget en bestilling på en marmorversion af frisen Alexander den Stores...

18.3.1818

Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Recipient Luigi Sommariva

Sommariva wants to tell his son in person about his commission for a marble version of Thorvaldse...

7.4.1818

Sender Christian 8.

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

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...

9.5.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Christian 8.

Thorvaldsen assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg...

9.5.1818

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Christian 8.

Draft of a letter dated 9.5.1818.

24.8.1818

Sender Redaktørerne ved Wiener Zeitung

Recipient Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

3.12.1819

Sender Hermann Ernst Freund

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...

28.12.1819

Sender Christian 8.

Recipient Christian 8.

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

1821

Sender Sydney Morgan

Recipient Omnes

Uddrag af Lady Morgans bog Italy med omtale af Thorvaldsens værksteder.

11.4.1826

Sender Ferdinando Dôrhel

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

On behalf of his client, Luigi Sommariva, Dôrhel presses Thorvaldsen for the remaining part of th...

31.8.1826

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Luigi Sommariva

Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...

31.8.1826

Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen

Recipient Luigi Sommariva

Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...

12.1.1827

Sender Louise Salvage de Faverolles

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Copied excerpt of a letter from Salvage de Faverolles to one of Thorvaldsen’s aquaintances, who i...