Primo 1817
Sender Nicolaus Esterházy
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Esterházy thanks Thorvaldsen for the sketches of different versions of bacchantes. He has put his...
4.1.1817
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Georg Wilhelm Wilding
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
11.1.1817
Sender NN
Workshop accounts for the second week of January 1817.
14.1.1817
Sender Leo von Klenze
16.1.1817
Recipient Johann Martin von Wagner
18.1.1817
Workshop accounts for the third week of January 1817.
19.1.1817
Sender G. Comelete
Sender Lauritz Kruse
20.1.1817
Sender John Russell
Russell asks Thorvaldsen to complete two reliefs, Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, and Priam Plead...
23.1.1817
Sender Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Bertrand-Favre cancels his commission for two bas-reliefs because they will be placed too high o...
24.1.1817
Sender Alessandro Focardi
1.2.1817
Workshop accounts for the week before February 1st 1817.
8.2.1817
Workshop accounts for the first week of February 1817.
10.2.1817
Sender Herman Schubart
15.2.1817
Workshop accounts for the second week of February 1817.
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...
25.2.1817
26.2.1817
Sender Christian 8.
1. marts-december 1817
The commentary for this accounting is not available at the moment.
Antagelig 1.3.1817
Workshop accounts presumably for the last week of February 1817.
2.3.1817
Bertrand-Favre writes to Thorvaldsen about the statue Ganymede Filling the Cup, cf. A43, which h...
7.3.1817
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
In his capacity as member of a committee, Mokronowski writes to Thorvaldsen to ask him if he is w...
8.3.1817
Workshop accounts for the first week of March 1817.
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
19.3.1817
Sender Giuseppe Boschi
20.3.1817
Recipient Felix Slade
Sender Felix Slade
21.3.1817
Sender Giuseppe Capecelatro
22.3.1817
Workshop accounts for the third week of March 1817.
Sender Accademia Romana di Archeologia
Tidligst 24.3.1817
Sender ? Briscoe
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...
28.3.1817
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
29.3.1817
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of March 1817.
5.4.1817
Workshop accounts for the first week of April 1817.
12.4.1817
Workshop accounts for the second week of April 1817.
15.4.1817
Bertrand-Favre asks when he can call on Thorvaldsen the same day.
18.4.1817
Sender John Foster the younger
19.4.1817
Studio account for the third week of April 1817.
21.4.1817
Sender Laura Zoëga
26.4.1817
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of April 1817.
27.4.1817
Sender Luigi Porro Lambertenghi
Porro Lambertenghi regrets that Thorvaldsen has not been paid as agreed. He has now made new arra...
Mellem 29.4.1817 og 20.5.1817
Sender John Cam Hobhouse
Lord Byron is in Rome, and Hobhouse wants Thorvaldsen to portray him. He hopes that Thorvaldsen i...
Maj 1817
Recipient Jørgen Knudtzon
Thorvaldsen writes that he has been very busy working and showing his workshop to English visitor...
Senest 3.5.1817
Sender Dionisio Bulzo
Bulzo gives instructions concerning the commission for a monument to the British governor-general...
3.5.1817
Workshop accounts for the workdays of the week 28.4.1817-3.5.1817.
Sender Paolo Prossalendi
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
10.5.1817
Workshop accounts for the second week of May 1817.
15.5.1817
Recipient Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen accepts the commission for an equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123, and a...
17.5.1817
Workshop accounts for the third week of May 1817.
Før 21.5.1817
Sender Commissione Generale Consultiva di Belle Arti, Filippo Aurelio Visconti
24.5.1817
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of May 1817.
Antagelig 25.5.1817
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.
25.5.1817
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen has to postpone his trip to Denmark because he has to finish John Russell’s com...
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen answers C.F.Hansen’s letter of 24.8.1816. He explains that his trip to Denmark has be...
27.5.1817
Sender E.H. Fleischer
31.5.1817
Workshop accounts for the fifth week of May 1817.
3.6.1817
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...
7.6.1817
Workshop accounts for the first week of June 1817.
9.6.1817
Sender ? de Rolle
Recipient Herman Schubart
14.6.1817
Workshop accounts for the second week of June 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...
17.6.1817
Sender Georgina M. Waddington
Waddington informs Thorvaldsen that her daughter is to marry Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, wh...
18.6.1817
20.6.1817
Sender Filippo Aurelio Visconti
22.6.1817
Caroline von Humboldt wants to buy the reliefs Night, Day and Nessus and Deianira. She praises Ni...
1.7.1817
Sender Enrica Nalli
Mokronowski thanks Thorvaldsen for accepting the commission for the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
2.7.1817
3.7.1817
Sender Clemens Metternich
Recipient Maria Leopoldina von Metternich-Winneburg
In Rome, Metternich has just commissioned two reliefs from Thorvaldsen; they are to be placed in ...
4.7.1817
Sender Catharina di Branciforte
The Princess regrets that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen since her departure from Rome. She a...
Efter 4.7.1817
6.7.1817
12.7.1817
Workshop accounts for the second week of July 1817.
14.7.1817
Sender Spiridion Naranzi
Naranzi informs Thorvaldsen that he will act as an intermediary concerning the commission for a m...
18.7.1817
19.7.1817
Workshop accounts for the third week of July 1817.
26.7.1817
Sender Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
31.7.1817
1.8.1817
Sender Thomson Bonar
Bonar asks Thorvaldsen to send him a sketch of the relief of the Three Marys and the angel at Chr...
2.8.1817
Workshop accounts for the week of late July-early August 1817.
13.8.1817
Recipient Ludwig 1.
14.8.1817
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s restoration of the Aeginetes a “wonder”. On the other ha...
16.8.1817
Sender Edward Dodwell
Dodwell recommends the English sculptor John Gibson to Thorvaldsen. Gibson is to study in Rome fo...
Antagelig efter 19.8.1817
Recipient Joseph-Marie Portalis
19.8.1817
Sender Luigi Chiaveri
Bonar sends a death mask of his son, Thomson Henry Bonar, and asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portr...
21.8.1817
Sender Giuseppe Antonio Guattàni
26.8.1817
Sender Franz Pettrich
2.9.1817
3.9.1817
5.9.1817
Naranzi writes that Dionisio Bulzo himself will visit Thorvaldsen and answer all the sculptorR...