7.3.1818
Sender NN
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for the first week of March 1818.
10.3.1818
Sender Gustav von Ingenheim
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
13.3.1818
Sender Wilhelm von Humboldt
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Humboldt remarks jokingly that the fact that his bust has been miscoloured must be the punishment...
14.3.1818
Workshop accounts for the second week of March 1818.
Sender Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Recipient Erik Gustaf Geijer
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
16.3.1818
The orientation of the Nazarenes towards the past is explained in terms of a speculative German n...
18.3.1818
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Recipient Luigi Sommariva
Sommariva wants to tell his son in person about his commission for a marble version of Thorvaldse...
21.3.1818
Sender ? Zedi
23.3.1818
26.3.1818
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient ? Zedi
28.3.1818
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of March 1818.
31.3.1818
Sommariva writes about his travels and the obstacles along the way that have delayed his return t...
1.4.1818
Sender Pietro Malpieri
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt has been pleased to read a beautiful and personal letter to her husband fro...
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Eckersberg takes advantage of the departure of the Nymph from Copenhagen to send greetings to Tho...
4.4.1818
Sender Lauritz Kruse
For the Royal Academy in Copenhagen, Christian Frederik commissions “a copy in plaster of all [Th...
6.4.1818
Sender E.H. Fleischer
7.4.1818
Sender Christian 8.
For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
Sender Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte
Bonaparte regrets that she has not got to know Thorvaldsen better, but she emphasizes that their ...
Sender Dionisio Bulzo
At Thorvaldsen’s request, Bulzo explains the meaning of the subject for the relief which is...
Sender Ant. Schneider
9.4.1818
Sender Ferdinand 3.
10.4.1818
Sender Carlo Pregor
16.4.1818
Caroline von Humboldt thinks that her husband will like her latest buy. She calls Goddess of Hope...
18.4.1818
Sender Peder Friis
Peder Friis, a friend of Thorvaldsen’s youth, sends a greeting to Thorvaldsen. His son, Frederik ...
21.4.1818
Sender George Agar Ellis
22.4.1818
Sender Vincenz Rüttimann
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Rüttimann reports that he has been in contact with Thorvaldsen regarding the monument in Lucerne ...
23.4.1818
Sender Peder Hjort
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this article is not available at the moment.
27.4.1818
Sender Spiridion Naranzi
Naranzi has forwarded Thorvaldsen’s questions about the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. t...
28.4.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
The commentary for this peom is not available at the moment.
29.4.1818
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
Mokronowski answers two letters from Thorvaldsen of March 1818. He also sends a specification of ...
30.4.1818
Antagelig tidligst maj 1818
Workshop accounts concerning work on the clay bozzetto for The Graces, cf. A30, the clay model fo...
1.5.1818
Sender John Russell
Russell has heard that two reliefs, which he has commissioned from Thorvaldsen, Briseis and Achil...
4.5.1818
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Recipient Frederik Schmidt
5.5.1818
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund, Jørgen Koch
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Koch and Freund report that they have arrived safely in Rome, where they have been well received ...
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Maria Koch
Koch informs his sister of his future address at Thorvaldsen’s place in Rome.
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Koch has not yet had time to talk to Thorvaldsen about The Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg Pa...
6.5.1818
Sender Ludwig 1.
Workshop accounts for the first week of May 1818.
9.5.1818
Recipient Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
Thorvaldsen assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Christiansborg...
Draft of a letter dated 9.5.1818.
11.5.1818
Sender Frances Mackenzie
Mackenzie has called in vain on Thorvaldsen with Cumming in order to pick up a medal. As they are...
16.5.1818
Despite the prospect of only a modest payment, Thorvaldsen has agreed to execute a model for the ...
It is the Humboldts’ eldest daughter Caroline’s birthday, and the residents of Palazzo Tomati, am...
23.5.1818
Recipient G.F. Hetsch
Koch will soon move into Casa Buti. Thorvaldsen is modelling Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5....
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...
Recipient Peder Malling
Workshop accounts for the third week of May 1818.
24.5.1818
Sender Pietro Tenerani
Tenerani’s receipt for 83 scudi for work done for Thorvaldsen.
25.5.1818
Sender Friederike Brun
30.5.1818
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of May 1818.
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
The commission asks for the four marble reliefs for Christiansborg Palace, cf. A317, A318, A319, ...
Mellem sommeren 1818 og 2.5.1819
Mackenzie sends for a parcel. She asks Thorvaldsen to let her know when he is coming back, knowin...
Mackenzie asks where Thorvaldsen wants to have lunch, and whether he would like to come at 3 and ...
Mackenzie sends for a book and a shawl that she has forgotten at Thorvaldsen’s place. If the weat...
Mackenzie asks if Thorvaldsen could visit her a little earlier the next day as she will be engage...
Thorvaldsen is invited for a drive in the beautiful weather so that he can get a little fresh air...
Mackenzie asks Thorvaldsen to come as soon as possible. She has received some letters which worry...
Mackenzie does not know whether Thorvaldsen is going to call on her. If he is, she would not like...
Juni 1818
1.6.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Mährisch-Ständische Brünner Zeitung
2.6.1818
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt agrees with Thorvaldsen that postal rates in Naples are outrageously high.
5.6.1818
Sender Barthold Georg Niebuhr
Recipient Ludwig Nicolovius
10.6.1818
Sender Vincenzo Ottaviani
Ottaviani asks Thorvaldsen to pay his rent for the coming 6 months. He encloses a receipt.
Receipt for payment of Thorvaldsen’s rent from June to November 1818.
10.6.1818 - 1822
Sender J.F. Schouw
Recipient J.P. With
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...
12.6.1818 (1894)
Recipient F.C. Sibbern
13.6.1818
Sender Ludwig Fuhrmann
Fuhrmann asks Thorvaldsen to inform Atanazy Raczyński about the progress of Ganymede Offering the...
Thorvaldsen has not yet made the promised draft of the monument to the fallen Swiss Guards, cf. D...
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
15.6.1818
Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen because he fears that his previous letter has been lost. He asks ...
20.6.1818
Sender C.F. Hansen
Hansen is pleased that Frederik 6., in his letter dated 15.6.1818, has ordered the commission of ...
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer to his letter of 27.4.1818 and repeats the contents of...
Frederik 6. commissions the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christiansborg Palace.
Humboldt is annoyed that Thorvaldsen only started modelling a new bust of her just before her dep...
Copy of the letter dated 20.6.1818.
24.6.1818
Sender Ferdinando Mori
26.6.1818
Sender Paolo Prossalendi
Muligvis 26.6.1818?
Sender Den franske ambassade i Rom
8.7.1818
Sender Leon Potocki
Preliminary contract regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123. Thorvaldsen ...
9.7.1818
Russell refers to his letter of 1.5.1818 regarding the shipment of the two reliefs that he has co...
10.7.1818
Thorvaldsen’s last letter has been received with pleasure. The committee is now convinced of his ...
11.7.1818
Workshop accounts for the second week of July 1818.
12.7.1818
Sender Georg Wilhelm Wilding
13.7.1818
Sender Alessandro Bornaccini
14.7.1818
Sender Gaetano Cartoni
Sender Pietro Benvenuti
18.7.1818
Workshop accounts for the third week of July 1818.
19.7.1818
Sommariva has heard that the lapidary Girometti is working on his portrait in cameo. He deeply re...
24.7.1818
25.7.1818
Sender Richard Bingham
27.7.1818
Sender Pelagio Palagi
29.7.1818
Sender Giuseppe Gudo