3.9.1817
Sender Gabriel Schreiber von Cronstern
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
8.9.1817
Sender Theodor von der Ropp
Ropp thanks Thorvaldsen after having received Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Venus with the Appl...
1818
Sender August Wilhelm Kephalides
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this guide is not available at the moment.
14.3.1818
Sender NN
Workshop accounts for the second week of March 1818.
9.5.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
18.7.1818
Workshop accounts for the third week of July 1818.
25.7.1818
Sender Richard Bingham
5.9.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of September 1818.
1.10.1818
Sender Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Efter 11.10.1818
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
11.10.1818
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Recipient Frederik Schmidt
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
29.11.1818
Sender John Parker
24.12.1818
Sender Clemens Metternich
Recipient Dorothea Lieven
Metternich describes his garden. He has furnished a salon with Italian objects, in which he also ...
Oktober 1819 - august 1821
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Antagelig 1819
Sender Ernest Augustus Valletort
7.1.1819
Recipient C.F. Hansen
16.1.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Janus
15.3.1819
1.4.1819
Sender Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Recipient Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop together with Hermann Ernst Freund and admired some of T...
3.4.1819
Workshop accounts for the week 29.3.-3.4.1819.
10.4.1819
Sender Rud Bay
Recipient Gottlieb Schønheyder
14.4.1819
Sender Franz Grillparzer
The commentary for this diary entry is not available at the moment.
28.4.1819
Scavenius visited Canova’s workshop. He criticises a number of his works and compares him unfavou...
19.5.1819
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient William Cavendish
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
17.6.1819
Sender Heinrich Keller
Keller presses Thorvaldsen for the completion of the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf....
19.11.1819
Sender John Gibson
Recipient John Crouchley
3.12.1819
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
4.12.1819
25.12.1819
29.12.1819
Efter 1820
Recipient NN
1820
Sender James Elmes
A description of the sculpture gallery at Woburn Abbey, including three works by Thorvaldsen, Pri...
1820-29
Sender Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
6.1.1820
Efter 30.4. og før 11.5. 1820
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
5.7.1820
Sender Friedrich Johann Jacobsen
19.8.1820
21.9.1820
Sender Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Recipient Johann Gottlob von Quandt
9.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
16.11.1820
Sender Karl Friedrich Wiebeking
17.-23.12.1820
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
29.1.1821
30.1.1821
12.8.1821
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
15.9.1821
Sender Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Carbonneaux has been asked by the Polish committee if he will cast the monument to Józef Poniatow...
25.10.1821
Sender Heinrich Hase
Article on Theodor von der Ropp’s art collection, comprising 10 works by Thorvaldsen.
27.10.1821
Recipient Rose Lawrence
10.5.1822
Sender Richard Camden Bingham
29.5.1822
21.9.1822
1823
Sender Josef von Hormayr
A description of the sculpture gallery in Prince Nicolaus Esterházy’s art collection in Vie...
Sender Per Ulrik Kernell
24.1.1823
2.4.1823
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Sommarive has heard about the accidental shot that has wounded Thorvaldsen. In Florence, he has t...
10.5.1823
Sender Friederike Brun
26.9.1823
25.10.1823
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
The commentary to this encyclopedia article is not available at the moment.
16.4.1824
12.6.1824
Recipient Ole Johan Freuchen
Juli 1824
Sender Karl August Böttiger
15.9.1824
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
24.9.1824
1824-1825
Thiele’s poem about Venus with the Apple, cf. A12, which went down with a cargo vessel but was sa...
29.1.1825
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
26.2.1825
Sender Johan Gunder Adler
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which Christian (8.) Frederik wants to be sent to D...
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
2.7.1825
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which were put on board the brig St. Croix in order...
20.8.1825
Sender NN, Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
1826
1826-1827 (1876)
Sender N.C.L. Abrahams
Abrahams’ recollections of his stay in Rome 1826-27.
17.4.1826
10.11.1826
Marts 1827
9.6.1827
4.7.1827
Sender Ditlev Martens
Martens has returned from Sicily and Calabria and sends a detailed account of his journey. In spi...
Antagelig 1828
Sender Johann Christian Reinhart
Januar 1828
22.2.1828
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten, Friedrich von Raumer
23.2. - 24.5.1828
Studio account of the work on the marble relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in the smithy of Vulcan, cf...
14.5.1828
26.5.1828
11.6.1828
16.7.1828
4.10.1828
27.10.1828
8.1.1829
Sender Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
12.2.1829
12.4.1829
Abrahams makes sarcastic remarks about the lack of real news from Copenhagen; the marriage betwee...
4.5.1829
Sender Christian Horneman
Hornemann reports the latest gossip from the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and about their m...
16.6.1829
Knudtzon reports that Thorvaldsen’s statues of Venus, A853, Ganymede Offering the Cup, A85...
14.7.1829
Sender F.C. Hillerup
6.10.1829
Sender Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte
Bonaparte writes about a journey she and her husband, Lord Dudley Stuart, have taken in which the...
21.2.1830
Sender Anton Baumgartner
11.3.1830
Sender Edward Divett den yngre
16.3.1830