23.8.1816
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
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16.9.1816
Sender Christian Erdmann Gottlieb Prestel
Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Prestel recommends Thorvaldsen both as a man and as an artist and gives examples of the sculptor’...
7.10.1816
Sender Wilhelm Heigelin
27.10.1816
Sender Georg Wilhelm Wilding
6.11.1816
Sender George Brentano-Laroche
23.11.1816
28.12.1816
Sender Johann Friedrich Wenner
Efter 1816
Sender Adolf Senff
1817
Sender NN
Recipient NN
Reference to Thorvaldsen in an index in Nicolaus Esterházy’s archive.
Sender Ludwig 1.
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Recipient Omnes
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4.1.1817
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Georg Wilhelm Wilding
13.1.1817
Sender C.D. Fritzsch
Recipient Christian 8.
14.1.1817
Sender Leo von Klenze
10.3.1817
15.3.1817
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Humboldt has heard rumours that Thorvaldsen will come through Berlin on his way to Denmark. She w...
17.3.1817
Sender Gabriel Schreiber von Cronstern
24.3.1817
Sender Franziska Caspers
Recipient Charlotte Thierry
Caspers had originally obtained a seat in a coach to go and visit her mother, but to her great an...
3.6.1817
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...
14.6.1817
In the afternoon, Caroline von Humboldt is to view the Aeginetes together with Thorvaldsen.
16.6.1817
Humboldt has viewed the Aeginetes, most of which are finished, and calls them “something complete...
22.6.1817
Caroline von Humboldt wants to buy the reliefs Night, Day and Nessus and Deianira. She praises Ni...
2.7.1817
12.7.1817
Sender Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen
Recipient Christiana Bunsen
Bunsen’s mother-in-law Georgiana M. Waddington has contacted Thorvaldsen in order to ask him to m...
26.7.1817
Sender Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
1.8.1817
Humboldt praises Thorvaldsen for his hard work and creativity in the execution of Alexander the G...
13.8.1817
Recipient Ludwig 1.
14.8.1817
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s restoration of the Aeginetes a “wonder”. On the other ha...
26.8.1817
Sender Franz Pettrich
3.9.1817
8.9.1817
Sender Theodor von der Ropp
Ropp thanks Thorvaldsen after having received Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Venus with the Appl...
12.9.1817
Recipient George Brentano-Laroche
6.10.1817
Many young artists in Rome are ill, and Thorvaldsen is not feeling very well either. He has compl...
12.10.1817
Sender Redaktørerne ved Oesterreichischer Beobachter
18.10.1817
Sender Wilhelm von Humboldt
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Through his contacts, Humboldt tries to persuade the British Prince Regent to commission Alexande...
19.10.1817
Sender Friederike Brun
21.10.1817
Sender Redaktørerne ved Leipziger Zeitung
This newspaper cutting reports that the Russian Zar and King of Poland Alexander 1. on 6.9.1817 h...
27.10.1817
Sender Redaktørerne ved Grätzer Zeitung
Paragraph praising Shepherd Boy, A177, and the bust of Georges Gordon Byron.
29.10.1817
Caspers is shocked by Thierry’s father’s severe illness, but she is pleased to hear that Thierry ...
30.10.1817
Humboldt has just celebrated her son-in-law August von Hedemann’s birthday with about twenty gues...
4.11.1817
On the top of the sacred Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, Humboldt, Thorvaldsen, and others have en...
20.11.1817
Caroline von Humboldt is pleased that Rauch has been commissioned to execute a monument to the Ge...
6.12.1817
13.12.1817
In Humboldt’s opinion, the history of Christianity is not an appropriate topic for sculpture; he ...
15.12.1817
Recipient Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen adds three conditions for accepting the execution of the equestrian statue of Józef P...
23.12.1817
Caroline von Humboldt is enchanted with the “young female figure”, Goddess of Hope, w...
Thorvaldsen has completed Goddess of Hope, A47, which Caroline von Humboldt greatly admires. The ...
24.12.1817
1818
Sender August Wilhelm Kephalides
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Efter 1.1.1818
Sender Lauritz Kruse
A prospectus in German in which Kruse invites his Danish-German fellow countrymen in Schleswig, H...
1.1.1818
Count Sommariva has commissioned the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon in marble fr...
2.1.1818
Thorvaldsen has finally received a commission for the marble version of the frieze Alexander the ...
15.1.1818
Wilhelm von Humboldt wants Caroline to have Goddess of Hope in marble. He compares Thorvaldsen wi...
28.1.1818
Once more, Caroline von Humboldt praises Thorvaldsen’s latest work, Goddess of Hope, A47.
5.2.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
17.2.1818
During transportation to Berlin, the bust of Wilhelm von Humboldt has been damaged. Caroline von ...
22.2.1818
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient C.F. Hansen
23.2.1818
The artists from Casa Buti have invited Caroline von Humboldt to dinner on her birthday, and she ...
3.3.1818
Thorvaldsen is working hard on another group and a single figure. Caroline von Humboldt has commi...
Thorvaldsen has shown Humboldt, Brandenburg, and Roeder a wealth of beautiful figures in his five...
10.3.1818
Sender Gustav von Ingenheim
13.3.1818
Humboldt remarks jokingly that the fact that his bust has been miscoloured must be the punishment...
17.3.1818
Wilhelm von Humboldt is pleased that Caroline has commissioned Goddess of Hope from Thorvaldsen. ...
27.3.1818
Humbolt thinks that Thorvaldsen’s workshop forms a whole of rich and great figures. He thinks tha...
1.4.1818
Caroline von Humboldt has been pleased to read a beautiful and personal letter to her husband fro...
16.4.1818
Caroline von Humboldt thinks that her husband will like her latest buy. She calls Goddess of Hope...
6.5.1818
16.5.1818
It is the Humboldts’ eldest daughter Caroline’s birthday, and the residents of Palazzo Tomati, am...
Antagelig 23. eller 28.5.1818
Sender Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Description of the rock wall in Lucerne where the monument to the Swiss Guard is to be placed, Dy...
25.5.1818
1.6.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Mährisch-Ständische Brünner Zeitung
2.6.1818
Caroline von Humboldt agrees with Thorvaldsen that postal rates in Naples are outrageously high.
5.6.1818
Sender Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Recipient Ludwig Nicolovius
11.6.1818
Sender Atanazy Raczyński
Raczyński sends part of the payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A854, expressing his hope ...
12.6.1818
Sender Stanislaus de Chaudoir
Chaudoir commissions the monument to his first wife Aloisia, cf. Monument to Stanislaus Chaudoir...
13.6.1818
Sender Ludwig Fuhrmann
Fuhrmann asks Thorvaldsen to inform Atanazy Raczyński about the progress of Ganymede Offering the...
20.6.1818
Humboldt is annoyed that Thorvaldsen only started modelling a new bust of her just before her dep...
12.7.1818
23.7.1818
Caroline von Humboldt has heard that Thorvaldsen is ill, and she fears that Hermen Schubart’s imp...
2.8.1818
Sender Vincenz Rüttimann
Before leaving Rome, Rüttimann wants to visit Thorvaldsen in order to discuss the monument Dying ...
11.8.1818
Caroline von Humboldt has returned from Rome with a bust that, in her eyes, is still unfinished. ...
18.8.1818
27.8.1818
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
1.9.1818
Sender Carl Ritter
7.9.1818
Rüttimann is grateful that Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model of Dying Lion (The Lucerne ...
8.9.1818
Sender Karl von Seinsheim
11.9.1818
15.9.1818
21.9.1818
Sender August Lewald
14.10.1818
Sender Johann August Gottlob Weigel
17.10.1818
Thorvaldsen has spent a month in Naples but still does not look happy and well. The clay model of...
4.11.1818
6.11.1818
Recipient Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of 250 scudi as part payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. ...
Wilhelm Schadow is working on several paintings, among them The Road to Calvary, B156. Thorvaldse...
11.11.1818
19.11.1818
Rüttimann reiterates some questions that he wants Thorvaldsen to answer concerning the monument D...
4.12.1818
Raczyński thanks Thorvaldsen for the drawing of Ganymede and hopes to receive the statue soon, cf...
Antagelig 5.12.1818
Sender Heinrich Keller
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller sends a drawing of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119. He fears that the...