6.7.1796
Sender Paul Steenstrup
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
24.10.1797
Sender Georg Zoëga
Zoëga sends Thorvaldsen a parcel with some of the clothes the sculptor left behind after his visi...
29.1.1800
Sender Frederik Obelitz
30.3.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley sends his greetings with Herman Schubart, who is leaving for Rome. He commends Schubart a...
20.11.1804
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and asks him to thank Christian Hornbech for the letter...
1.6.1805
Sender Balthasar Schiøtt
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
Balthasar Schiøtt reports that at Stanley’s – and indirectly Thorvaldsen’s – request he has seen ...
7.9.1805
Stanley’s health is tolerable. Anna Maria Uhden is also well, as is Thorvaldsen’s dog...
4.9.1810
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund’s travel experiences on his return to Denmark after eight years in Rome. He asks Thorv...
23.1.1812
Sender C.G. Kratzenstein Stub
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
18.9.1812
Sender C.F. Høyer
9.1.1815
Sender Herman Schubart
19.3.1816
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to buy some antique objects for his friend Alexander Baillie and to res...
3.4.1816
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
29.4.1816
Sender Johan Christian Meldal
23.5.1816
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
20.6.1816
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
24.8.1816
Sender C.F. Hansen
C.F. Hansen wants to know when Thorvaldsen is leaving Rome. He thinks that a visit like this woul...
25.2.1817
Sender Lauritz Kruse
2.9.1817
30.10.1817
Sender Albrecht Schønberg
20.6.1818
Hansen is pleased that Frederik 6., in his letter dated 15.6.1818, has ordered the commission of ...
19.7.1818
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Sommariva has heard that the lapidary Girometti is working on his portrait in cameo. He deeply re...
24.7.1818
22.9.1818
20.1.1819
2.10.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
10.2.1820
Sender Heinrich Grosch
28.8.1820
Sender Vilhelm Henrik Harbou
31.1.1821
Sommariva has received the first reproductions in cameo of the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry...
20.6.1821
Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie have visited Sommariva’s villa by Lake Como. Th...
24.5.1822
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Thorvaldsen responds to Gunnerus’ letter of 16.3.1822. He feels sympathy for Gunnerus and his unh...
19.7.1822
9.8.1823
Sender Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Gunnerus thanks Thorvaldsen once again for his donation of the relief Caritas, cf. A598. Gunnerus...
23.6.1824
17.7.1824
27.11.1824
Sender Christian Horneman
Recommendation of the Danish architect Ole Jørgen Schmidt, who is going to Italy. Horneman’...
29.11.1824
18.5.1825
The room in which the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, is to be put up ...
5.8.1825
Sommariva is pleased that the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, will be ...
27.7.1826
Sender N.C. Lunzi
7.2.1827
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827. Extr...
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
7.5.1827
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
16.7.1827
Sender J.C. Dahl
Dahl recommends the landscape painter Evelina Stading. Dahl knows that Frederik 6. is going to se...
17.9.1827
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
2.2.1828
Recipient Hermann Ernst Freund
Thorvaldsen requests information about the execution of the figure of Christ in Carrara. Freund i...
4.10.1828
4.5.1829
Hornemann reports the latest gossip from the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and about their m...
20.5.1829
Hornemann recommends the composer Frølich, who intends to spend a year in Italy. He does not like...
12.1.1830
Sender Niccola Severi
22.5.1830
Sender Joseph Hambro
24.5.1830
Sender Gerhard Stub
19.10.1830
26.10.1830
Thorvaldsen’s bust of Dahl, A229, has finally arrived in Dresden. Dahl writes that a crate with t...
26.2.1831
Recipient J.C. Dahl
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
11.5.1831
15.5.1832
A greeting and a recommendation of Mandelsloh.
25.2.1833
16.5.1833
Thorvaldsen thanks Hansen for his letters in which he mentions the pleasure, expressed by many pe...
16.4.1834
Recipient Jonas Collin
Thorvaldsen itemizes his bill for works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lady and ...
7.8.1834
Thorvaldsen’s departure for Denmark is delayed, so he asks Freund to give him a detailed report o...
16.8.1834
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
1.11.1834
5.3.1836
18.3.1837
20.1.1838
6.2.1838
Sender Frederik Siegfried Vogt
5.10.1839
Sender Jonas Collin
11.2.1840
Recipient Christine Stampe
Recipient NN
Short greeting from Thorvaldsen to an unknown person.
18.12.1841
24.12.1841
4.6.1842
19.11.1842
Sender Frantz Bülow
1849
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.