1820
Sender Ole Bang
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this poem is not available at the moment.
Sender Jens Baggesen
Recipient Omnes
Epigram on Thorvaldsen’s growing fame, from national to global.
Ca. 1820
Sender J.C. Dahl
Recipient Stephan Heger
Two strange text fragments from Dahl to Heger.
Januar 1820
Sender Friedrich von Warnstedt
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
1.1.1820
Sender A.F. Elmquist
Elmquist sends a short story dedicated to Thorvaldsen and urgently requests a gift in return.
Printed dedication to Thorvaldsen.
Efter 1819
Sender Friederike Brun
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
4.1.1820
Sender Christian Hornbech
Sender Lorenzo Re
5.1.1820
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Sender Herman Schubart
6.1.1820
Visits Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo delle Colonnette.
Sender Kirkebygningskommissionen
Recipient Kirkebygningskommissionen
Efter 6.1.1820, før 15.2.1820
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
11.1.1820
Sender Peder Ingerslev
15.1.1820
Sender Rud Bay
Recipient Gottlieb Schønheyder
Rud Bay asks his friend Gottlieb Schønheyder to give his regards to Thorvaldsen. He remarks that ...
16.1.1820
Sender Pietro Tenerani
17.1.1820
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted is happy that Thorvaldsen’s company has pleased the Aagaard family. He thanks them for ...
18.1.1820
Sender NN
21.1.1820
1.2.1820
8.2.1820
Sender Friederike Brun, Redaktørerne ved Tilskueren
9.2.1820
Sender Gunnlaug Briem
10.2.1820
Sender Heinrich Grosch
11.2.1820
15.2.1820
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Christian Frijs
Hermann Ernst Freund is modelling the apostle Thaddaeus in full size for the Church of Our Lady i...
Før 15.2.1820
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Sender C.F. Høyer
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
28.2.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
12.3.1820
Recipient C.F. Hansen
15.3.1820
Sender Otto v. Huhn
21.3.1820
Sender Henrich Mathias Wilhelm Klingberg
The commentary for this prescription is not available at the moment.
1.4.1820
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch congratulates C.F. Hansen because Thorvaldsen is to decorate the Church of Our Lady in Copen...
4.4.1820
Sender Nicolai Holten, Adam Wilhelm Moltke
Moltke writes that 4000 species have been collected for carving marble versions of the two bas-re...
8.4.1820
Sender J.H.B. Fortlage
Muligvis 10.4.1820
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Dedication to Thorvaldsen in Eventyr og Fortællinger (1820).
12.4.1820
Sender Kamma Rahbek
20.4.1820
Recipient Frederik 6.
Thorvaldsen suggests a drastic restructuring and relocation of the Royal Collection of Paintings,...
25.4.1820
Sender Peter Carl Jessen
Antagelig foråret 1820
Sender Frederik Julian Christian von Bertouch
Notepad with three texts.
Efter 30.4. og før 11.5. 1820
4.5.1820
Sender Gabriel Schreiber von Cronstern
6.5.1820
Sender Frankfurtischer Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der nützlichen Künste
The commentary for this appointment is not available at the moment.
9.5.1820
Poem in Thorvaldsen’s album. In the first two stanzas, the art of poetry is compared with the art...
10.5.1820
11.5.1820
Sender Christian Horneman
Horneman is pleased to have met Thorvaldsen at last and is grateful that the sculptor is willing ...
13.5.1820
A fragment of text on the back of one of Thorvaldsen’s drawings.
20.5.1820
25.5.1820
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
28.5.1820
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
Payment for works for Christiansborg Palace.
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
7.6.1820
16.6.1820
Recipient Johan Gunder Adler
Information that Thorvaldsen has not yet commenced his journey from Copenhagen to Rome.
18.6.1820
Sender Sulpiz Boisserée
On the occasion of Goethe’s seventieth birthday, Boisserée told Thorvaldsen about his plans for a...
21.6.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Lemberger Zeitung
24.6.1820
Sender David Monrad
26.6.1820
Sender Stanisław Mokronowski
Mokronowski reminds Thorvaldsen of his promise to visit Warsaw during the summer. He wonders whet...
27.6.1820
Sender Rasmus Bruun Bojesen
28.6.1820
Sender N.T. Bruun
Song to Thorvaldsen on the occasion of his approaching departure from Copenhagen.
Sender Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke
Moltke declines an invitation to attend the farewell party to Thorvaldsen at the Royal Shooting S...
1.7.1820
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted is curious to know if Aagaard has seen Thorvaldsen’s busts of the Royal Family (Frederi...
Omrking 1.7.1820
A draft for Thorvaldsen’s journey leaving Denmark 1820.
3.7.1820
Sender Borups Selskab
Borup’s Society invites Thorvaldsen to a dinner party.
4.7.1820
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch has heard from J.L. Lund that Thorvaldsen has changed his travel plans and hopes to see him...
5.7.1820
Sender Hedde Jansen Ehlers
6.7.1820
Sender Joseph Hambro
Recipient Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Hambro in Copenhagen issues a letter of credit for 2,500 ducats to Thorvaldsen on Torlonia in Rome.
Sender R. Sveistrup
Recipient C.E.F. Weyse
7.7.1820
Sender M.F. Liebenberg
11.7.1820
Sender Peder Horrebow Haste
Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...
19.7.1820
Sender Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Lundbye thanks Thorvaldsen for his promise to perform a task for him in Italy. He asks Thorvaldse...
21.7.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Giornale della Provincia bresciana
Sender C. F. Schmidt-Phiseldeck
Sandsynligvis før 11.8.1820
Sender Emil Aarestrup
Poem to Thorvaldsen before his departure from Denmark.
7.8.1820
Sender Jens Løye
Jens Løye agrees to sail Thorvaldsen from Nysted to Rostock.
8.8.1820
Sender Marietta Selmer
Sender Brødrene Tutein
Thorvaldsen receives a letter of credit for 6,000 Hamburger banco in connection with his journey ...
9.8.1820
Sender Johanne Ferrini
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
Recipient Packert
The commentary for this letter draft is not available at the moment.
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.
Recipient NN
Farewell greeting from Thorvaldsen to an unknown recipient.
Senest 11.8.1820
12.8.1820
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...
Sandsynligvis medio august 1820
Dedication to Thorvaldsen in Reiselyren (1820).
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
20.8.1820
Sender Louise Juliane von Bertouch
A poem to Thorvaldsen about his bachelorhood.