27.10.1804
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen worries that the yellow fever in the area of Leghorn will affect the Schubarts.
Fragment of a draft letter. Thorvaldsen thanks the Schubarts.
30.10.1804
Sender Waldemar Henrik Rothe
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The theologian Waldemar Henrik Rothe thanks Thorvaldsen for his friendship during his stay in Rom...
2.11.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
13.11.1804
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley is ready to go to Rome but is stopped by the news of an epidmic in the area around Leghor...
20.11.1804
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and asks him to thank Christian Hornbech for the letter...
26.11.1804
Schubart wants to know if Thorvaldsen will accept the commission of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1. B...
30.11.1804
Three short drafts of a letter. Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of a letter from Schubart and wr...
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late reply and informs Schubart that he is finishing Bacchus, A2. ...
7.12.1804
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
28.12.1804
Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...
29.12.1804
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
Efter 1805
Sender NN
Fragment of an unidentified letter on the back of one of Thorvaldsen’s drawings.
Antagelig 1805
Sender J.L. Thrane
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
6.1.1805
Sender Andreas Christian Gierlew
28.1.1805
Sender Gustav Stanley
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
Gustav Stanley sends news from Copenhagen to his brother.
31.1.1805
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
4.3.1805
Schubart writes that Charlotte Schimmelmann is satisfied with Thorvaldsen’s sketch of Bapti...
9.3.1805
Stanley suggests having Gotskalk Thorvaldsen admitted to Vartov, an institution for the poor. Sta...
29.3.1805
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
14.4.1805
Gustav Stanley sends news from Copenhagen about Christiansborg Palace and the Academy of Fine Art...
15.4.1805
Stanley requests a meeting with Thorvaldsen and repeats his request the following day.
24.4.1805
Stanley asks Thorvaldsen to help him with some sculptural decorations for some of his architectur...
8.5.1805
Sender Jens Christopher Friborg
Recipient Directionen for Fattigvæsenet
10.5.1805
Schubart writes that The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and the portrait busts of himse...
16.5.1805
Sender Directionen for Fattigvæsenet
Recipient Vartov Hospital
The poor-law authorities in Copenhagen admit Gotskalk Thorvaldsen to Vartov Hospital.
1.6.1805
Sender Vartov Hospital
Vartov list of Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s personal effects.
Sender Balthasar Schiøtt
Balthasar Schiøtt reports that at Stanley’s – and indirectly Thorvaldsen’s – request he has seen ...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s entry in Census of Patients at Vartov Hospital.
7.6.1805
Sender Christian 7.
Christian 7. appoints Thorvaldsen professor of sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...
10.6.1805
Schubart forwards the freight bill concerning The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and th...
15.6.1805
Sender København Kunstakademiet
The Academy of Fine Arts announces that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor of sculpture.
17.6.1805
18.6.1805
Sender C.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
1.7.1805
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
6.7.1805
Sender Arnold Wallick
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
19.7.1805
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
26.7.1805
Schubart is pleased with Thorvaldsen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts...
28.7.1805
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Draft: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the...
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for his appointment as professor of sculpture at the Academy ...
Draft letter dated 28.7.1805.
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the autumn...
8.8.1805
Schubart is extremely pleased that Thorvaldsen is coming to Montenero after all, thanks to Conrad...
16.8.1805
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
24.8.1805
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
30.8.1805
Stanley ironically describes his amazement at having received two letters from Thorvaldsen. He al...
31.8.1805
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund has heard that Thorvaldsen is working on the relief The Baptism of Christ, possibly A736, du...
Omkring 1.9.1805
Thorvaldsen’s account of debts and loans.
7.9.1805
Stanley’s health is tolerable. Anna Maria Uhden is also well, as is Thorvaldsen’s dog...
16.9.1805
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
21.9.1805
Stanley submits drawings for a church and a sepulchral chapel for evaluation by the Academy of Fi...
Efter 21.9.1805
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome, he mentions Caspar Bartholin and C.F...
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen informs Schubart that he is coming to Rome after two days...
27.9.1805
Schubart recommends Adam Anthony Stratenus and Cornelius Johannes Kneppelhout to Thorvaldsen.
30.9.1805
Schubart apologizes for not having written for a long time. Stanley is welcome to send him his le...
11.10.1805
Schubart has made some emendations in Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
19.10.1805
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
20.10.1805
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen takes leave of his son and apologizes for his last letter. He writes that he...
5.11.1805
Schubart recommends C.F. Høyer to Thorvaldsen. He hopes to come to Rome when the hostilities are ...
10.11.1805
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
11.11.1805
Schubart writes that he has forwarded Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
16.11.1805
Sender C.F. Høyer
C.F. Høyer has just arrived in Rome. He reports to Nicolai Abildgaard that Thorvaldsen has invite...
Sandsynligvis 22.11.1805
Sender Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Lundbye informs Schubart that C.F.F. Stanley has died. He reproduces his graveside speech and des...
14.2.1806
Schubart writes that, on behalf of the American government, Thomas Hall requests Thorvaldsen to e...
28.2.1806
Høyer reports on his activities in Rome. He is happy to stay with Thorvaldsen.
12.4.1806
19.4.1806
Antagelig maj-juni 1806
Sender Otto Reedtz-Thott
8.5.1806
Lundbye informs Thorvaldsen of his arrival in Pisa. He tells him about the mutual friends he has ...
23.5.1806
Schubart tells Abildgaard about C.F.F. Stanley’s death. He encloses Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye&...
26.5.1806
Recipient Johan Christian August Bielke
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
Ultimo maj eller primo juni 1806
Sender Johan Christian Meldal
2.6.1806
Recipient Georg Zoëga
Schubart confers with Zoëga on smuggling a collection of antique coins from Rome to Leghorn on be...
6.6.1806
14.6.1806
Thorvaldsen competes with Antonio Canova for the commission for a colossal statue of Liberty to t...
18.6.1806
Høyer suggests that commissions for Christiansborg Palace should soon be given to Thorvaldsen bef...
Sentences and fragments of a letter, see the general comment.
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
Draft letter, see the general comment.
Draft letter dated 18.6.1806.
28.7.1806
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich sends a bill for the remainder of the cost of the transport of crates from Leghorn to Cope...
8.8.1806
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
14.8.1806
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...
15.8.1806
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman Schubart,...
24.8.1806
Sender Baron Brown
Brown informs Thorvaldsen that he has received a letter from Wilhelm von Uhden renouncing the mon...
5.9.1806
Thorvaldsen sends the drawing Caritas, C820, as a birthday present to Jacqueline Schubart.
6.9.1806
23.9.1806
Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the Museo Pio Clementino. He ...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the ...
24.10.1806
Vartov list of Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s estate.
9.11.1806
Recipient Andreas Dobert Kalleberg
A greeting in Kalleberg’s album.
18.11.1806
31.12.1806
Sender C.F. Hansen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
Efter 1807
9.1.1807
Schubart summarizes to Thorvaldsen their mutual financial status and tells him to inform him if h...