16.4.1787
Sender Christian Frederik Høyer
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s certificate of confirmation.
9.3.1796
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
Song from Thorvaldsen to the newly-married couple Peter Hanning Hammer and Frederike Dorothea Ham...
17.5.1796
Sender Peder Pavels
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
24.5.1796
Sender Søren Tybring
4.6.1796
Sender Frederik Arentz Krog
15.8.1796
Sender M.F. Liebenberg
20.8.1796
Sender Hieronymus Laub
19.11.1796
Sender Carl Ludwig Fernow
Recipient Johann Pohrt
Fernow asks Pohrt to see to, that Thorvaldsen brings him books to Rome, as Fernow erroneously bel...
31.12.1796
Fernow mentions the Danes he has met in Rome. Thorvaldsen has not yet arrived.
Januar 1797
Copy of Peder Pavels’ diary and drafts of Thorvaldsen’s diary from Malta 1796-97.
11.3.1797
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
8.5.1797
Sender Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
21.5.1797
Peder Pavels, the chaplain of the Thetis, sends his greetings and reports what has happened on th...
14.8.1797
Sender Jørgen West
West is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He relates news of family and friends ...
30.12.1797
Fernow has been on a week-long excursion in the country surrounding Rome with Thorvaldsen and oth...
Efter 1800
Sender ? Jacopini
Recipient Andrea Acquistapace
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
12.6.1803
Sender Luigi Formenti
The unidentified Formenti summons Thorvaldsen to a meeting with Anna Maria Uhden.
25.2.1804
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Third draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
30.10.1804
Sender Waldemar Henrik Rothe
The theologian Waldemar Henrik Rothe thanks Thorvaldsen for his friendship during his stay in Rom...
1.6.1805
Sender Vartov Hospital
Recipient Vartov Hospital
Vartov list of Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s personal effects.
14.2.1806
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart writes that, on behalf of the American government, Thomas Hall requests Thorvaldsen to e...
15.8.1806
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman Schubart,...
27.7.1813
Recipient Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen writes that he has arrived safely at Montenero. Since it is St. Anne’s Day, he though...
4.9.1813
Sender Pietro Giuntotardi
10.2.1814
Sender Epifanio Capuzzi, Thomas Hall
Recipient Herman Schubart
10.12.1814
Sender Johann Paul Schulthesius
Schulthesius recommends Salvatore Pietro Janer to Thorvaldsen.
14.9.1816
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
18.2.1817
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...
2.11.1817
Sender B.S. Ingemann, Børge Henrik Knap
2.1.1818
Brøndsted has finally received an answer from Thorvaldsen to his latest letters, one of which has...
9.1.1818
4.4.1818
Sender Lauritz Kruse
For the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, Christian Frederik commissions “a copy in plaster of all [Th...
4.5.1818
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Recipient Frederik Schmidt
10.10.1818
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Ingemann describes his first meeting with Thorvaldsen in Rome.
11.10.1818
24.12.1818 (1894)
Sender Peder Hjort
Recipient Olivia Catharine Rasbech
24.12.1818
20.1.1819
The commentary to this poem is not available at the moment.
24.1.1819
Sender Stanislaus Emili
Recipient NN
28.1.1819
The commentary for this song is not available at the moment.
13.10.1819
Song for Thorvaldsen in Borup’s Society, Copenhagen.
15.10.1819
Sender M.F. Liebenberg, Adam Oehlenschläger, Knud Lyne Rahbek
16.10.1819
Schmidt’s song to Thorvaldsen at the celebration at the Royal Shooting Society in Copenhagen.
1820
Sender James Elmes
A description of the sculpture gallery at Woburn Abbey, including three works by Thorvaldsen, Pri...
11.1.1820
Sender Peder Ingerslev
8.4.1820
Sender J.H.B. Fortlage
18.6.1820
Sender Sulpiz Boisserée
On the occasion of Goethe’s seventieth birthday, Boisserée told Thorvaldsen about his plans for a...
7.7.1820
The commentary for this poem is not available at the moment.
1822
Sender Philip Hunt
Texts about three of Thorvaldsen’s works: Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Priam Pleads with...
Tidligst 1823, senest 1825
Sender Anton Endres
Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn
A survey of works commissioned from Thorvaldsen in 1823 by Schönborn, cf. A177, A233, A827, A411 ...
23.8.1823
Sender Søren Jørgensen Breder
Recipient Hans Henrik Gunnerus
The clergyman Søren Jørgensen Breder describes Hans Henrik Gunnerus as an honest man and a loving...
1.9.1823
Sender Hans Henrik Gunnerus
From prison Gunnerus requests that the relief Caritas, cf. A598, be sold as quickly as possible. ...
28.11.1823
Sender Stanisław Staszic
16.12.1823
Sender Jørgen Conrad de Falsen
Falsen reminds Thorvaldsen that he has commissioned a monument to his late wife. However, the mem...
2.1.1824
Sender Heinrich Eduard Schmieder
21.2.1824
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
12.6.1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Recipient Ole Johan Freuchen
10.2.1825
19.2.1825
Gunnerus has heard that the relief Caritas, cf. A598, will arrive in Copenhagen from Leghorn the ...
26.2.1825
Sender Johan Gunder Adler
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which Christian (8.) Frederik wants to be sent to D...
Ca. 1.5.1825
Sender Ludvig Bødtcher
Recipient Ludvig Bødtcher
Bødtcher describes the farewell party for J.M. Thiele and H.C. Holten, followed by a moonlight wa...
4.5.1825
Sender Paolo Bedoschi
Recipient Francesco Cancellieri
18.6.1825
2.7.1825
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which were put on board the brig St. Croix in order...
24.9.1825
Sender Jens Baggesen
After a long silence, Jens Baggesen hopes that Thorvaldsen still remembers him. Baggesen has been...
22.10.1825
1826-1827 (1876)
Sender N.C.L. Abrahams
Abrahams’ recollections of his stay in Rome 1826-27.
20.4.1826
Recommendation of Carl Wilhelm Heber to Thorvaldsen.
5.9.1826
Sender Sophus Zahle
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
5.1.1827
Sender Børge Thorlacius
Recipient Johan Gunder Adler
28.1.1827
Sender NN
4.2.1827
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen writes which works will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827.
Recipient Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen sends a list of the works that can be ready for transportation to Denmark in the spri...
12.2.1827
Recipient Kirkebygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827 and c...
7.5.1827
Sender C.F. Hansen
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
22.5.1827
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
6.6.1827
Sender Kirkebygningskommissionen
The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen seize the opportunity to have th...
4.12.1827
The merchant ship Therese arrived in Tunis on 28.10.1827 and may soon be expected at Leghorn. As ...
Antagelig forår 1828
Sender Wriothesley Russell
Russell regrets that he has to postpone his visit to Thorvaldsen, but he has time after Monday.
22.1.1828
Sender Andrea Pozzi
Pozzi asks if he may borrow a painting which Thorvaldsen owns, Praying Virgin, B16, as the bearer...
28.6.1828
Ca. 1829
Sender Finnur Magnússon
13.3.1829
Sender Emil Clausen
28.7.1829
14.10.1829
Sender Coriolano Staccoli
12.11.1829
Recipient Gian Battista Pericoli
8.3.1830
Sender F.C. Hillerup
A drinking song in six stanzas in the form of an imaginary journey to Rome, written on the occasi...
6.5.1830
1831
Sender Terkel Mørch
Mørch writes about his youth in Borup’s Society and about Thorvaldsen’s visits to his...
29.9.1831
Recommendation of the Scottish sculpture student Patric Park.
20.4.1832
Sender Giuseppe
29.5.1832
Sender Joseph Mainzer
3.12.1832
Sender Fritz Paulsen
30.10.1833
Sender Friedrich Tippelskirch
24.12.1833
Sender H.C. Andersen
Recipient H.C. Andersen
Andersen describes the Christmas celebration of Scandinavian artists and others in Rome 1833.
Antagelig omkring 24.4.1835
Magnússon, who is recuperating from an illness, writes that he presumes that Thorvaldsen has not ...