31.7.1833
Sender Det Kongelige Nordiske Oldskriftselskab, Finnur Magnússon, Carl Christian Rafn
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Før 8.8.1833
Sender NN
Recipient NN
List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
Second part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corv...
First part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corve...
20.8.1833
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted is vexed that his collection of books and manuscripts which Thorvaldsen holds as securi...
21.8.1833
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient C.F. Hansen
14.9.1833
Sender Ludvig Bødtcher
Recipient Jonas Collin
26.9.1833
Sender Michelangelo Pacetti
Pacetti acknowledges receipt of payment for two gilt-framed paintings.
27.9.1833
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Recipient Omnes
A list of the artworks by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
1.10.1833
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
A list of the works by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
4.10.1833
Sender H.C. Andersen
Recipient H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen describes his visit to the marble quarries at Carrara.
5.10.1833
Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to ...
8.10.1833
Sender C.W. Eckersberg, København Kunstakademiet, Just Mathias Thiele
The corvette Galathea arrived in Copenhagen 20.9.1833. The crates with Thorvaldsen’s works have b...
Sender Redaktørerne ved Aftonbladet
Aftonbladet reports that a shipment of Thorvaldsen’s works has arrived in Copenhagen.
10.10.1833
Andersen has heard that Thorvaldsen is stingy.
18.10.1833
Andersen attends the reburial of Raphael in the Pantheon, where he sees Thorvaldsen for the first...
19.10.1833
Andersen visits Thorvaldsen for the first time in Rome. He seeks him in vain in his workshop but ...
21.10.1833
Andersen has visited Christen Christensen, who is working on a portrait of Thorvaldsen, and in Al...
23.10.1833
Andersen has visited Princess Charlotte Frederikke in order to read aloud from his dramatic poem ...
25.10.1833
Sender J.S. Møsting, København Ordenskapitlet
The College of Arms informs Thorvaldsen that he has been awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of...
Thorvaldsen is awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog.
26.10.1833
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen regrets that he has not yet begun his planned journey to Copenhagen; the work on the ...
Thorvaldsen asks Collin to help him deposit a sum of 20,000 species [40,000 rix-dollars] in the N...
Thorvaldsen has completed the relief The Fates, A366. He is working on 15-16 new sculptures and w...
27.10.1833
Andersen has visited St. Peter’s Basilica, where he saw Thorvaldsen’s monument to Pius 7., cf. A1...
4.11.1833
Sender København Kunstakademiet
The Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen informs Thorvaldsen that he has been awarded the Silver Cr...
7.11.1833
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshops and seen Psyche in plaster, A26, and George Gordon B...
15.11.1833
Thorvaldsen has been awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, and Christian Freder...
18.11.1833
Sender Jonas Collin
Recipient Frederik 6.
A draft for a letter to Frederik 6. Collin has received letter from Thorvaldsen, in which he requ...
Andersen describes a Ponte Molle party that he attended with Thorvaldsen and other German and Sca...
23.11.1833
In connection with the deposit of Elisa Paulsen’s dowry in the National Bank in Copenhagen, Colli...
24.11.1833
Sender Thomas Fearnley
Fearnley’s receipt for the paintings Elsenore towards Kronborg, Winter, B194, and Elsenore toward...
26.11.1833
Andersen describes Pope Leo XII’s visit to Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Piazza Barberini on St. Luk...
28.11.1833
Andersen has attended a magnificent ball given by Princess Anna Maria Torlonia, where he talked t...
29.11.1833
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Andersen has been in a tavern in order to take leave of First Lieutenant A.W. Dinesen, who is lea...
3.12.1833
In the evening, Andersen went to a tavern where Thorvaldsen, Johann Christian Reinhart, and Peter...
5.12.1833
Andersen has been given a theatre ticket by Thorvaldsen and has been running around in vain, tryi...
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch recommends the bearer of the letter, the German pianist and composer Otto Nicolai, who has ...
6.12.1833
Andersen reads aloud from Agnete and the Merman to Thorvaldsen and other artists. Thorvaldsen, wh...
Sender Friederike Brun
Brun is eager to have the crates with Thorvaldsen’s marble works opened. Hermann Ernst Freund is ...
7.12.1833
Andersen has attended an evening of poetry reading at the Accademia Tiberina together with Henrik...
21.12.1833
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of the report on the arrival of his works of art in Copenhagen w...
24.12.1833
Andersen describes the Christmas celebration of Scandinavian artists and others in Rome 1833.
Song for the Scandinavians’ Christmas celebration in Rome 1833.
Antagelig 1834-1838
Sender Jørgen Sonne
Sonne acknowledges receipt of payment for a painting, either A Battlefield on the Morning after a...
8.1.1834
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen and was comforted and encouraged by him after having told him ab...
Antagelig senest 8.1.1834
Holograph copy of H.C. Andersen’s poem The Dying Child presented to Thorvaldsen.
18.1.1834
The three works that had been delivered to the Church of Our Lady even though they belonged to Th...
21.1.1834
Andersen describes an accident in Thorvaldsen’s workshop, which could have cost the sculptor his ...
31.1.1834
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
5.2.1834
11.2.1834
Sender Frederik 6.
15.2.1834
17.2.1834
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
18.2.1834
Thorvaldsen nearly fell off a tall ladder while working on the horse for Maximilian 1., cf. A128....
21.2.1834
On 1.1.1834, Elisa Paulsen gave birth to a son, who was baptized the following day in St. Peter’s...
22.2.1834
The art lovers of Copenhagen are told what the reasons are why it has not yet been possible to ex...
8.3.1834
Sender F.C. Hillerup
Sender Christian Winther
A song in nine stanzas in the form of an imaginary journey to Rome. You should drink wine and let...
8.3. - 26.7.1834
Sender Ludwig von Hofer
Hofer acknowledges receipt of payment for work on the marble versions of the reliefs Pan and a Sa...
12.3.1834
Andersen describes the contrast between Schlick’s and Thorvaldsen’s appearance and habits.
13.3.1834
14.3.1834
18.3.1834
The architect Benjamin Schlick has maligned Thorvaldsen, his meanness, and his way of treating yo...
29.3.1834
Thorvaldsen has been for a walk with Andersen, holding his hand.
31.3.1834 - 1.4.1834
31.3.1834
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen for the last time before his departure from Rome. He was shown t...
2.-3.4.1834
4.4.1834
11.4.1834
16.4.1834
Thorvaldsen is in bed with a severe cold. The last five pieces of the Alexander Frieze are now re...
Thorvaldsen itemizes his bill for works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lady and ...
3.5.1834
H.C. Andersen sees Thorvaldsen’s monument to Eugène de Beauharnais, cf. A156.
10.5.1834
12.5.1834
Recipient Københavns Universitet, Slotsbygningskommissionen
Draft of letters to Copenhagen University and to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palac...
16.5.1834
20.5.1834
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
22.5.1834
26.5.1834
Sender J.L. Jensen
Jensen asks Thorvaldsen for 50 scudi for his purchase of three of Jensen’s paintings, Flowers in ...
Jensen’s advance receipt for payment for the paintings Flowers in a vase on a marble table-top, B...
11.6.1834
19.6.1834
Antagelig 21.6.1834
By mistake, the Roman postal services have delayed delivery of some of Thorvaldsen’s letters. The...
21.6.1834
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen thanks the Academy of Fine Arts for the information that he has been awarded the Silv...
28.6.1834
Recipient Gutenberg-kommissionen
5.7.1834
Sender Københavns Universitet
Collin is asked to provide a formal bill for 8,000 rix-dollars in silver for the works Thorvaldse...
8.7.1834
Recipient Københavns Universitet
Draft letter in which Collin confirms that he will provide a formal bill for the works that Thorv...
15.7.1834
Sender Den kongelige Direktion for Statsgælden og den Synkende Fond
7.8.1834
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
Thorvaldsen’s departure for Denmark is delayed, so he asks Freund to give him a detailed report o...
16.8.1834
Sender C.F. Hansen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
22.8.1834
Sender Bernhard von Beskow
28.8.1834
2.9.1834
28.9.1834
4.10.1834