19.7.1820
Sender Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lundbye thanks Thorvaldsen for his promise to perform a task for him in Italy. He asks Thorvaldse...
August 1820 - maj 1821
Sender NN
Accounts for work on the Alexander Frieze (part with lion) by Gaëti, Scalpellino, and István Fer...
7.8.1820
Sender Jens Løye
Jens Løye agrees to sail Thorvaldsen from Nysted to Rostock.
8.8.1820
Sender Brødrene Tutein
Thorvaldsen receives a letter of credit for 6,000 Hamburger banco in connection with his journey ...
9.8.1820
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
10.8.1820
Recipient Sulpiz Boisserée
Recipient Christian Horneman
Thorvaldsen’s greeting in Christian Horneman’s album.
Recipient Otto v. Huhn
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.e
Thorvaldsen is flattered and accepts a commission to execute a frieze with bas-reliefs for a monu...
Sender A.C. Kierulff
Thorvalden’s passport for his journey from Copenhagen to Italy via Warsaw.
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Recipient NN
Farewell greeting from Thorvaldsen to an unknown recipient.
12.8.1820
Recipient Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe
Song about maternal love to Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe.
Recipient Christian Carl Friedrich August, Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe
Song on the occasion of the betrothal of Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe and Christian Carl Friedrich A...
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
The newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has left Copenhagen for Italy. Frederik 6. has presented h...
15.8.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende
Newspaper clipping on Thorvaldsen’s departure from Copenhagen.
16.8.1820
Sender H.F.J. Estrup
Estrup invites Thorvaldsen to visit him and the family Scavenius at Klintholm Manor.
19.8.1820
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
22.8.1820
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen intends to travel via Poland to Italy in the company of the Danish architect Simon Ch...
26.8. - 9.12.1820
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
28.8.1820
Sender Vilhelm Henrik Harbou
30.8.1820
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Recommendation of C.A. Jensen, who is copying two paintings in Rome by Domenichino and Raphael.
September 1820
Sender John Cam Hobhouse
Recipient Joseph Douglas Strutt
Hobgouse sends three letters that may be useful to him. He requests Strutt to ask Thorvaldsen to ...
Hobhouse introduces his compatriot Joseph Douglas Strutt, who is spending the winter in Rome. He ...
2.9.1820
Sender Carl Schultzen
A receipt for changing Danish specier to ducats in Berlin.
4.9.1820
Sender Heinrich Hopfgarten
Hopfgarten invites Thorvaldsen for a visit and asks him to carry a letter to his brother.
11.9.1820
Sender Karl August Böttiger
Böttiger writes a flattering dedication to Thorvaldsen in his book Ideen zur Archäologie der Male...
12.9.1820
Sender Leo von Klenze
Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Klenze hopes that Schönborn will come and see the art exhibition in Munich, which he also expects...
15.9.1820
Sender Christian 8.
17.9.1820
Sender Stanislaus de Chaudoir
Chaudoir inquires whether Thorvaldsen has had time to think about the commissioned monument to hi...
18.9.1820
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Warsaw. He encloses a small metal relief as a ...
19.9.1820
Sender C.F. Høyer
Høyer forwards a letter from H.E. Freund in Rome to Thorvaldsen, who is on his way through Europe...
21.9.1820
Sender Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Recipient Johann Gottlob von Quandt
28.9.1820
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted is pleased that Thorvaldsen has met the Aagaard family and his own children before leav...
30.9.1820
Recipient Christian Frijs
Oktober 1820 - november 1822
Oktober 1820 - oktober 1821
5.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
14.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
The newspaper Nyeste Skilderie reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.
The newspaper Dagen reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.
19.10.1820
Hans Michelsen leaves Stockholm for Rome in order to study with Thorvaldsen in Rome.
Recipient Stanisław Mokronowski
A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...
Fra 21.10.1820 til 16.12.1820
Sender Paweł Maliński
Maliński’s travel account for Thorvaldsen’s journey from Warsaw to Rome October to De...
29.10.1820
Sender Sulpiz Boisserée
Boisserée writes that he cannot meet Thorvaldsen in Munich as he is in Paris in connection with h...
18.11.1820-1.3.1823
Accounts for carving the second marble version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177.
November 1820 - december 1823
November 1820 - juni 1822
2.11.1820
Sender Friedrich von Gentz
6.11.1820
Newpaper report on the congress of Troppau.
7.11.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Il Messaggere Tirolese
Thorvaldsen arrives in Vienna after a stay at Troppau, where he met the Russian and the Austrian ...
9.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
11.11.1820
Sender Pietro Tenerani
Tenerani informs Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen&#...
Sender Redaktørerne ved Diario di Roma
A brief mention of the floor collapse in Thorvaldsen’s workshop 8.11.1820
16.11.1820
Sender Karl Friedrich Wiebeking
17.11.1820
Sender Joseph Hermann (den yngre)
Recipient Massimiliano Roch
18.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place on 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen...
Recipient Simon Christian Pontoppidan
20.11.1820
Sender Joseph Ludwig Seiss
25.11.1820
Sender Franz Ludwig Sartorius
Sartorius writes that he has arranged for Thorvaldsen to inspect the site for the projected monum...
Sender Franziska Caspers
Caspers has heard about the collapse of the floor in Thorvaldsen’s workshop and sympathizes with ...
Sender Øllegaard Lundegaard
Charity from Thorvaldsen requested.
Antagelig december 1820
Sender Andrea Galli
Hotel bill.
December 1820 - februar 1821
December 1820 - september 1821
9.12.1820
Recipient Franz Heger
Thorvaldsen’s arrival in Rome is expected any moment. He has just arrived in Verona.
11.12.1820
Recipient Ercole Consalvi
The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.
12.12.1820
Rides out (in vain) to meet Thorvaldsen, who is on his way to Rome.
16.12.1820
Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome that day and has tea in the evening with Christian (8.) Frederik ...
17.12.1820
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Efter 16.12.1820
Sender Luigi Chiaveri
A dedication to Thorvaldsen in a book.
Dinner with Thorvaldsen and other Danes in Rome.
17.-23.12.1820
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
20.12.1820
Sender Frances Mackenzie
Recipient Jonas Collin
Antagelig 20.12.1820
Thorvaldsen was with Brøndsted while he wrote the letter and sends his regards.
21.12.1820
Dinner with Thorvaldsen and Claus Christian Bang.
23.12.1820
24.12.1820
Sender Elisabetta Catalani Marini
Through Thorvaldsen, Marini has received 4,30 gold sequins from her sister, the opera singer Ange...
Celebrates Christmas Eve in the company of Thorvaldsen and other Danes in Rome. They have rice pu...
27.12.1820
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
28.12.1820
Visits Thorvaldsen, who gets the idea of enlarging his professorial residence at the Academy of F...
Sender Carl Otto
The commentary for this song is not available at the moment.
A printed notice on the collapse of the floor in Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
29.12.1820
Sender Beate von Bergen
30.12.1820
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Sommariva has heard that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome after his trip to Denmark and congratul...
Thorvaldsen is working on the bust of Caroline Amalie, A716.
31.12.1820
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted is happy that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome. The floor in one of Thorvaldsen’s studi...
Muligvis omkring 1821
Sender Jacob Ludwig Salomo Bartholdy
Tidligst 1821
Antagelig 1821
Sender Carlo Torlonia
Omkring 1821 - 1822
Sender Commissione Generale Consultiva di Belle Arti
1819-1821
Sender Ludwig 1.
Sender Samuel Rogers
Dedication in a book.
Muligvis 1821-22
Sender David Ferdinand Koreff
Koreff recommends a friend, probably Joseph Liboschitz (1783-1824), to Thorvaldsen.