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 ...
9.5.1818
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Christian 8.
Schubart assures the concerned Christian Frederik that the Alexander Frieze for Frederik 6.’s new...
23.5.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient G.F. Hetsch
Koch will soon move into Casa Buti. Thorvaldsen is modelling Mercury about to Kill Argus, cf. A5....
25.5.1818
Sender Friederike Brun
Recipient Omnes
Mellem sommeren 1818 og 2.5.1819
Sender Frances Mackenzie
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mackenzie sends for a parcel. She asks Thorvaldsen to let her know when he is coming back, knowin...
Thorvaldsen is invited for a drive in the beautiful weather so that he can get a little fresh air...
Mackenzie does not know whether Thorvaldsen is going to call on her. If he is, she would not like...
13.6.1818
Sender Ludwig Fuhrmann
Fuhrmann asks Thorvaldsen to inform Atanazy Raczyński about the progress of Ganymede Offering the...
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
8.7.1818
Sender Leon Potocki
Preliminary contract regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A123. Thorvaldsen ...
13.7.1818
Sender Alessandro Bornaccini
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
14.7.1818
Sender Pietro Benvenuti
27.7.1818
Sender Pelagio Palagi
30.7.1818
Sender Francesco Barberini
Barberini has heard that the marble version of Monument to over Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. ...
26.8.1818
27.8.1818
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
3.9.1818
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
13.9.1818
Recipient Nicolai Dajon
4.11.1818
Sender Leo von Klenze
6.11.1818
Wilhelm Schadow is working on several paintings, among them The Road to Calvary, B156. Thorvaldse...
22.11.1818
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for one or several weeks in November 1818.
8.12.1818
9.12.1818
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient C.F. Hansen
22.12.1818
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...
29.12.1818
Sender C.F. Høyer
2.1.1819
Sender François-Joseph Navez
Navez thanks Thorvaldsen for lending him a bust. He asks for another one or a basrelief to make d...
6.1.1819
Sender Heinrich Keller
Recipient Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that Thorvaldsen has begun work on the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf...
Antagelig før 21.4.1819
Sender Franziska Caspers
The stanza urges the person who suffers from pain and hopelessness to silent prayer.
7.1.1819
9.1.1819
Rauch’s friends in Rome are deeply worried about his health and ask for news. Thorvaldsen has com...
Efter 16.1.1819
17.1.1819
Recipient Charlotte Thierry
Thorvaldsen has guided Caspers through the Vatican museum by torchlight. She admires his inspirin...
20.1.1819
29.1.1819
Navez asks Thorvaldsen to lend him a pair of antique busts. He also thanks him for the loan of Ho...
5.2.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted writes that he sees Thorvaldsen every day. He praises Thorvaldsen’s latest works, Cupid...
8.2.1819
Sender Martin Verstappen
13.2.1819
Keller regrets that work on the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is so slow and...
1.3.1819
Kort før eller den 9.3.1819
Caroline von Humboldt invites Thorvaldsen to come and talk to her the same day; however, she is b...
16.3.1819
28.3.1819
Sender Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Recipient Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius and Brøndsted called on Thorvaldsen, but they did not speak to him as he was busy worki...
30.3.1819
Scavenius called on "Christian Carl Friedrich August":/personer/christian-carl-friedric...
Antagelig april eller maj 1819
In this love poem, Caspers describes a pain which prayer cannot soothe, and which she fears will ...
1.4.1819
Sommariva writes that unfortunately he has had to give up his plans to go to Rome. He is proud of...
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop together with Hermann Ernst Freund and admired some of T...
3.4.1819
Scavenius celebrated his father’s birthday at the trattoria The Ermine, where Thorvaldsen was als...
9.4.1819
A few days after his previous letter, Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen again on behalf of the Appi...
16.4.1819
Scavenius saw an exhibition of works by Scandinavian artists in the Palazzo Caffarelli in Rome, w...
18.4.1819
27.4.1819
Sender C.A. Jensen
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Sender J.L. Lund
1.5.1819
Sender Rud Bay
Recipient Gottlieb Schønheyder
Rud Bay describes his first encounter with Thorvaldsen. He mentions a wild and drunken party on t...
6.5.1819
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
It was a sad, rainy morning when Caroline von Humboldt left Rome on May 2, 1819. The Buti family ...
7.5.1819
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is much admired. He is ...
7.-10.5.1819
Scavenius’ diary describing a four-day hiking and horse riding trip to the Alban Hills with...
15.5.1819
Caroline von Humboldt has not demanded an answer from Thorvaldsen concerning Rauch’s possible rol...
19.5.1819
Scavenius comments on Thorvaldsen’s restoration of the Aegenetes, which have inspired Goddess of ...
23.5.1819
Caspers is leaving Rome and Thorvaldsen, but she feels that her soul will stay with him. She will...
28.5.1819
Recipient Andreas Christian Gierlew
Brøndsted thanks Gierlew for his letter. He is currently editing his investigations from his expe...
19.6.1819
Brøndsted writes about his Roman friends and about Thorvaldsen in particular. He is happy that Th...
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch thanks Caroline von Humboldt for having acted wisely in connection with Rauch’s possible in...
Juli-august 1819
The commentary for this accounting is not available at the moment.
Juli-oktober 1819
The travel account of J.L. Lund for the journey from Rome to Copenhagen July-October 1819.
Omkring 3.7.1819
Review of the planned monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. cast A119, in commemoration of ...
3.7.1819
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, has been completed and ...
10.7.1819
Koch is pleased to have met P.O. Brøndsted in Rome. Thorvaldsen will soon start his journey to De...
13.7.1819
Brøndsted recommends places and friends that he thinks Thorvaldsen should visit on his journey to...
14.7.1819
Thorvaldsen has begun his journey to Denmark with J.L. Lund and Conrad Rantzau.
Recipient Maria Koch
Thorvaldsen has begun his journey to Denmark with J.L. Lund.
23.7.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
24.7.1819
Rauch can get the latest news about Thorvaldsen from Karl Wilhelm Wach. Frances Mackenzie has bro...
28.7.1819
Recipient Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted tells Aagaard that Thorvaldsen has left Rome, which is good because there were so many ...
31.7.1819
Thorvaldsen travels to Denmark with J.L. Lund and Conrad Rantzau.
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
3.8.1819
11.8.1819
Thorvaldsen has finally begun his journey to Denmark, but Rauch fears that he will not come throu...
2.10.1819
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
10.10.1819
Sender Niels Henrich Weinwich
The commentary for this advertisement is not available at the moment.
12.10.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
16.10.1819
Sender Adam Oehlenschläger
The commentary for this speech is not available at the moment.
23.10.1819
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
24.10.1819
Sender Christian Ditlev Reventlow
8.11.1819
Christian Frederik has considered to interrupt his grand tour of Europe temporarily in order to g...
14.11.1819
Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...
17.11.1819
Greetings to Thorvaldsen and Lund, who are in Denmark.
26.11.1819
3.12.1819
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
25.12.1819
Caspers suffers because she has not heard from Thorvaldsen. She often reads about him in the news...
29.12.1819
Efter 1820
Sender NN
Recipient NN
Sender Johan Bravo
5.1.1820
6.1.1820
16.1.1820
Sender Pietro Tenerani
10.2.1820
Sender Heinrich Grosch
15.2.1820
Recipient Christian Frijs
Hermann Ernst Freund is modelling the apostle Thaddaeus in full size for the Church of Our Lady i...
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
12.3.1820