28.7.1805
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the autumn...
16.8.1805
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
24.8.1805
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
30.8.1805
Stanley ironically describes his amazement at having received two letters from Thorvaldsen. He al...
31.8.1805
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund has heard that Thorvaldsen is working on the relief The Baptism of Christ, possibly A736, du...
Omkring 1.9.1805
Thorvaldsen’s account of debts and loans.
16.9.1805
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
20.9.1805
Sender Irina Vorontsova
Vorontsova has received a letter from Thorvaldsen in which he tells her that he is working on her...
Efter 21.9.1805
Recipient Herman Schubart
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen informs Schubart that he is coming to Rome after two days...
11.10.1805
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart has made some emendations in Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
19.10.1805
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
20.10.1805
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen takes leave of his son and apologizes for his last letter. He writes that he...
5.11.1805
Schubart recommends C.F. Høyer to Thorvaldsen. He hopes to come to Rome when the hostilities are ...
10.11.1805
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
11.11.1805
Schubart writes that he has forwarded Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
16.11.1805
Sender C.F. Høyer
C.F. Høyer has just arrived in Rome. He reports to Nicolai Abildgaard that Thorvaldsen has invite...
Sandsynligvis 22.11.1805
Sender Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Lundbye informs Schubart that C.F.F. Stanley has died. He reproduces his graveside speech and des...
1806
Sender Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Recipient Angelika Kauffmann
The poem addresses a doubting “you” and suggests that “veiled, gentle Charis” breathes in Angelik...
3.2.1806
Sender Jacqueline Schubart
Jacqueline Schubart expresses her delight with Thorvaldsen’s drawing Cupid and the Butterfl...
14.2.1806
Schubart writes that, on behalf of the American government, Thomas Hall requests Thorvaldsen to e...
28.2.1806
Høyer reports on his activities in Rome. He is happy to stay with Thorvaldsen.
6.3.1806
Sender Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr
Stuhr has arrived at Leghorn and informed Herman Schubart that his busts of A.P. Bernstorff, A207...
12.4.1806
Sender Arnold Wallick
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
8.5.1806
Lundbye informs Thorvaldsen of his arrival in Pisa. He tells him about the mutual friends he has ...
23.5.1806
Schubart tells Abildgaard about C.F.F. Stanley’s death. He encloses Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye&...
9.6.1806
Sender Johann Carl Rössler
Rössler writes from Pisa, where he has met Baron Schubart. He urges Thorvaldsen to leave Rome and...
18.6.1806
Høyer suggests that commissions for Christiansborg Palace should soon be given to Thorvaldsen bef...
Sentences and fragments of a letter, see the general comment.
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
Draft letter, see the general comment.
Draft letter dated 18.6.1806.
25.7.1806
Sender Fr.G. Sulzer
Sulzer asks Thorvaldsen to help him buy some Havana cigars in Leghorn and sends greetings to his ...
28.7.1806
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich sends a bill for the remainder of the cost of the transport of crates from Leghorn to Cope...
8.8.1806
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
14.8.1806
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that he will receive his salary as a professor of the Royal Academ...
15.8.1806
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman Schubart,...
5.9.1806
Thorvaldsen sends the drawing Caritas, C820, as a birthday present to Jacqueline Schubart.
6.9.1806
23.9.1806
Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the Museo Pio Clementino. He ...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen has received payment for the three catalogue volumes of the ...
18.11.1806
31.12.1806
Sender C.F. Hansen
C.F. Hansen commissions works from Thorvaldsen. For the façade of Christiansborg Palace, he wants...
9.1.1807
Schubart summarizes to Thorvaldsen their mutual financial status and tells him to inform him if h...
23.1.1807
Recipient Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau how work on his commissions is progressing. The portrait bust, c...
30.1.1807
Høyer writes that Thorvaldsen has received an instalment of 100 rix-dollars for the portrait bust...
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
21.2.1807
Thorvaldsen has received commissions from C.F. Hansen and the Building Commission for Christiansb...
9.3.1807
Schubart is pleased that Thorvaldsen has received commissions from Denmark. He is going to ask Ch...
5.6.1807
Schubart invites Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero and suggests a trip to Carrara.
8.6.1807
A.G.D. Moltke transfers 200 piastres for his bust, cf. A212, regretting the delay. He would like ...
Efter 14.6.1807
Sender Carl Gotthard Grass
Grass describes his arrival at the town of Treia and his negative impression of the local inhabit...
Efter 15.6.1807
Carl Grass has heard that Baron Schubart has brought him a small parcel with papers and asks Thor...
4.7.1807
31.7.1807
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero, Florence and Carrara.
Tidligst september 1807, senest august 1810
Thorvaldsen tells Conrad Rantzau that his bust, cf. A211, is ready to be shipped, and that the re...
2.10.1807
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero.
Antagelig 5.-7.10.1807
Thorvaldsen declines the invitation to Montenero.
Kort efter 31.10.1807
Sender Johan Georg Wahl
Wahl relates his journey from Rome to Pisa via Florence. He writes that the Schubarts are very di...
27.12.1807
Antagelig ultimo 1808 - ultimo marts 1811
Sender Wilhelm von Huth
Huth asks Thorvaldsen to send him 30 scudi for travelling equipment and prepayment of board and l...
18.1.1808
Schubart thanks Thorvaldsen for his birthday present, the drawing Mary with Jesus and John. He h...
21.5.1808
3.6.1808
Schubart invites Thorvaldsen to travel to Montenero, hopefully in the company of Ernst Gottlob Ma...
17.7.1808
Lund’s receipt for a loan of 50 scudi from Thorvaldsen
12.8.1808
Schubart invites Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero and then accompany him, Jacqueline Schubart, an...
20.8.1808
Thorvaldsen cannot come to Montenero because he is waiting for a final answer regarding a commiss...
9.9.1808
Recipient Carl Anton Graff
Greetings and reports from mainly the Danish-German art society in Rome.
Før 18.10.1808
Sender Guillaume Lethière
Før 22.10.1808
22.11.1808
23.11.1808
Sender Poul Scheel
Scheel assures Thorvaldsen that he has not been forgotten in Copenhagen and asks him to remember ...
28.11.1808
Sender Christian Ditlev Reventlow
4.12.1808
Antagelig 1809
Sender Carlo Labruzzi
13.1.1809
18.2.1809
2.3.1809
Recipient Federico Zoëga
12.3.1809
20.3.1809
28.3.1809
6.6.1809
7.7.1809
12.7.1809
22.7.1809
4.8.1809
21.8.1809
Efteråret 1809
Sender Adam Oehlenschläger
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this poem is not available at the moment.
1.11.1809
December 1809
Antagelig efter 1810
Sender William Scrope
Antagelig tidligst 1810'erne
Sender Bartolomeo Pinelli
Sender Franz Riepenhausen
Recipient NN
Omkring 1810
Sender Charles Dupaty
Efter 28.1.1810
Sender Charles de Chatillon
Sender Domenico Carelli