30.7.1818
Sender Francesco Barberini
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Barberini has heard that the marble version of Monument to over Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. ...
August 1818
Sender Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte
Bonaparte blames Thorvaldsen for not having written to her and reminds him of the promises of fri...
1818-19
Sender Anne Proby
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
1.8.1818
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen looks forward to embracing C.F. Hansen in Copenhagen soon. He characterizes the sculp...
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen is grateful for the commission for the Alexander Frieze and two caryatids for Christi...
Draft letter dated 1.8.1818.
Second draft of letter dated 1.8.1818.
First draft of letter dated 1.8.1818.
Third draft of letter dated 1.8.1818.
2.8.1818
Sender Vincenz Rüttimann
Before leaving Rome, Rüttimann wants to visit Thorvaldsen in order to discuss the monument Dying ...
4.8.1818
Recipient Ivan Ivanovitj Barjatinskij
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
5.8.1818
Sender Pietro Odazi
Receipt for six months’ rent for Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo della Catena, for the period 1...
8.8.1818
Sender Margherita Vergé
Request for financial support.
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Thorvaldsen has finished a drawing for the monument to the members of the Swiss Guard, cf. Dying ...
11.8.1818
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt has returned from Rome with a bust that, in her eyes, is still unfinished. ...
14.8.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
22.8.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Thorvaldsen is pleased that his native country now acknowledges his achievements with a large com...
Recipient Maria Koch
Koch has moved into Casa Buti after having spent two weeks in the Alban Hills.
24.8.1818
Sender Edward Collins
Collins recommends the bearer of the letter, Mr. Pendarves.
Sender Bartolommeo Pacca
25.8.1818
26.8.1818
Sender Alessandro Bornaccini
27.8.1818
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
29.8.1818
Sender NN
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of August 1818.
29.8. - 4.10.1818
Efteråret 1818
Sender Francesca Gerna
1.9.1818
Sender Carl Ritter
3.9.1818
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
4.9.1818
5.9.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of September 1818.
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
Sender Redaktørerne ved Mährisch-Ständische Brünner Zeitung
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
12.9.1818
Workshop accounts for the second week of September 1818.
13.9.1818
Sender Accademia di Carrara
Recipient Nicolai Dajon
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Information about Hermann Ernst Freund’s work in progress Innocence Feeding a Lamb.
Thorvaldsen is elected member of the Accademia di Carrara.
15.9.1818
Sender ? Orsola
16.9.1818
Giovanni Landini, secretary of the Accademia di Carrara, informs Thorvaldsen that G.B. Raggiwill ...
19.9.1818
Workshop accounts for the third week of September 1818.
22.9.1818
26.9.1818
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of September 1818.
Sender Commissione di S. Francesco di Paola
3.10.1818
Workshop accounts for the week of late September-early October 1818.
Antagelig kort efter 4.10.1818
Accounts of various professional and private expenses.
5.10.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Gazzetta di Milano
10.10.1818
Workshop accounts for the second week of October 1818.
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Ingemann describes his first meeting with Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Recipient Frederik Schmidt
Sender Frances Mackenzie
Mackenzie is moving into a house next to the customhouse at Porto di Ripetta. She asks Thorvaldse...
Efter 11.10.1818
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
11.10.1818
12.10.1818
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
Knudtzon recommends the British architect Benjamin Dean Wyatt to Thorvaldsen. Knudtzon announces ...
14.10.1818
Sender Johann August Gottlob Weigel
15.10.1818
16.10.1818
Recipient Gustav Heintzelmann
17.10.1818
Workshop accounts for the third week of October 1818.
Thorvaldsen has spent a month in Naples but still does not look happy and well. The clay model of...
20.10.1818
Sender ? Especo
22.10.1818
Sender Ferdinando Mori
23.10.1818
Sender Veronica Zauli Guarini
Veronica Zauli Guarini has called in vain on Thorvaldsen to hear whether he will execute her bust...
Senest 23.10.1818
Two poems to Night, A901, and Day, A902. In “Night”, the stars, the moon, and a landscape are evo...
24.10.1818
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
Mokronowski writes that since his last letter to Thorvaldsen he has collected all the pictures of...
25.10.1818
Sommariva has arrived in Italy. He has read in the French press that Frederik 6. has commissioned...
26.10.1818
Sender Ferdinand 1.
28.10.1818
Sender Frederik Julius Kaas, J.D.T. Manthey, København Ordenskapitlet
The College of Arms reminds Thorvaldsen that he has to send them his biography.
31.10.1818
Workshop accounts for the fifth week of October 1818.
November 1818
Sender Lauritz Kruse
4.11.1818
Sender Leo von Klenze
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...
7.11.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of November 1818.
11.11.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Oesterreichischer Beobachter
13.11.1818
15.11.1818
Sender Giuseppe Piazzini
19.11.1818
Rüttimann reiterates some questions that he wants Thorvaldsen to answer concerning the monument D...
21.11.1818
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
22.11.1818
Workshop accounts for one or several weeks in November 1818.
28.11.1818
Sender A. Italinsky
29.11.1818
Sender John Parker
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of November 1818.
4.12.1818
Sender Atanazy Raczyński
Raczyński thanks Thorvaldsen for the drawing of Ganymede and hopes to receive the statue soon, cf...
5.12.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of December 1818.
Antagelig 5.12.1818
Sender Heinrich Keller
Keller sends a drawing of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119. He fears that the...
6.12.1818
8.12.1818
9.12.1818
Sender Christian 8.
11.12.1818
Sender Peder Anker
12.12.1818
Sender Vincenzo Ottaviani
Receipt for payment of Thorvaldsen’s rent from December 1818 to May 1819.
15.12.1818
Recipient Det toscanske Hof
Sender Joh. Carl Löwe
Löwe informs Thorvaldsen that he and Gerhard Stub will be in charge of the transportation of the ...
Sender Edward Everett
Everett has commissioned some copies of the bust of Lord Byron without specifying the material. A...
17.12.1818
Sender Filippo Aurelio Visconti
18.12.1818
Recipient Luigi Porro Lambertenghi
Thorvaldsen conveys his thanks for the valuable box and the words of praise that he has received ...
21.12.1818
Raczyński has spoken to Joh. Carl Löwe about the transportation from Rome to Poznań of the statu...
22.12.1818
Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...
24.12.1818 (1894)
Sender Peder Hjort
Recipient Olivia Catharine Rasbech
24.12.1818