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Date | Events | Whereabouts | Works |
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Presumably 14.9. - 17.9.1819 | Meets for the first time Conrad Hinrich Donner in Altona. | ||
17.9.1824 | Ercole Consalvis buste, cf. A271, is placed in the Pantheon. | ||
Beginning of September 1827 | The merchant ship Therese leaves Copenhagen bound for Tunis with a cargo of tributary gifts for Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud. | ||
10.9.1838 | Appointed “konferensråd” (honorary title, now obsolete) on board of the frigate Rota. Thorvaldsen receives the message 16.9.1838. | ||
16.9.1838 | The Rota anchors north west of Elsinore waiting for favourable currents and winds. Thorvaldsen attends a Danish-Swedish celebration in his honour on board the steamship Dronning Marie. Two songs for the sculptor are sung. | ||
17.9.1838 | The frigate Rota is towed round Kronborg in the morning, and is greeted by cheers of hurray and music in boats from Helsingborg. Passes Trekroner at Copenhagen in the afternoon. | ||
17.9.1838 | Amid great jubilation, Thorvaldsen disembarks at the Copenhagen Custom House after 42 years of exile. | ||
17.9.1838 | On the balcony of Charlottenborg Thorvaldsen is cheered by a crowd in Kongens Nytorv. | ||
17.9.1838 | Young artists pay tribute to Thorvaldsen with a torchlight procession in the Botanical Gardens behind Charlottenborg. A song by Christian Winther is sung. | ||
17.9.1838 - 24.3.1844 | Residence and workshop at Charlottenborg, 1 Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen. However, he lives alternately at Charlottenborg, at Nysø, and in Rome until his death. | ||
End of September 1838 | Party given by J.L.A. Kolderup-Rosenvinge. | ||
26.8.1840 | Meeting with F.C. Olsen regarding a list of the works executed by Thorvaldsen since his return to Denmark 17.9.1838. | ||
17.9.1848 | Thorvaldsen’s Museum is inaugurated, and the sculptor’s bequest is officially transferred to the city of Copenhagen by Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo (The Executors of Thorvaldsen’s Estate). |