Sommer 1805
Sender August Wilhelm Schlegel
Recipient Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Omnes
Schlegel reports to Goethe on the art scene in Rome, summer 1805. The commentary to this document...
10.6.1805
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart forwards the freight bill concerning The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and th...
30.8.1805
Sender Camillo Landini
Stanley has given Landini a letter from Thorvaldsen, who is at Montenero, and asks for news about...
7.9.1805
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley’s health is tolerable. Anna Maria Uhden is also well, as is Thorvaldsen’s dog...
14.6.1806
Sender Irina Vorontsova
Vorontsova is very impatient to receive the long-awaited artworks. Thorvaldsen has informed her a...
18.6.1806
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
6.7.1806
Sender Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
The banker Torlonia requests the delivery of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures for Countess Vorontsova.
23.8.1806
Countess Vorontsova is sure that Thorvaldsen has kept his promise and finished the commissioned w...
30.1.1807
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
23.1.1811
Sender Theodor von der Ropp
Ropp is grateful that his works are finished. In his opinion the Jupiter Otricoli is not part of ...
Antagelig 2.2.1811
Recipient Theodor von der Ropp
Thorvaldsen thanks Ropp for the payment of his works. Regarding Jupiter Otricoli, he thinks that ...
Sandsynligvis 1814
Sender G.L. Lahde, Adam Oehlenschläger
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Januar 1815
Sender Friederike Brun
27.4.1816
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Recipient J.F. Clemens
20.6.1816
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen har completed Venus with the Apple, A12, and at least 15 portrait busts of Britons.
8.9.1817
Ropp thanks Thorvaldsen after having received Briseis and Achilles, cf. A490, Venus with the Appl...
14.3.1818
Sender NN
Workshop accounts for the second week of March 1818.
18.7.1818
Workshop accounts for the third week of July 1818.
5.9.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of September 1818.
Efter 11.10.1818
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
Oktober 1819 - august 1821
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
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.
19.5.1819
Recipient William Cavendish
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
19.11.1819
Sender John Gibson
Recipient John Crouchley
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
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
1820
Sender James Elmes
A description of the sculpture gallery at Woburn Abbey, including three works by Thorvaldsen, Pri...
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
9.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
12.8.1821
Sender Christian 8.
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
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
25.10.1823
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
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
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
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...
12.4.1829
Sender N.C.L. Abrahams
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...
16.12.1830
1831
Sender Rembrandt Peale
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
12.12.1831
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
17.6.1832
Sender C.F. Hansen
Clarification of circumstances relating to the commissions for Christiansborg Palace and the Chur...
21.8.1832
Sender Slotsbygningskommissionen
Frederik 6. has approved C.F. Hansen’s drawings for the great hall and two adjoining apartments o...
2.11.1835
Sender Marie Lehmann
Recipient Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard describes her and her parents’ first visit to Thorvaldsen. He surpasses all their ...
29.3.1836
Sender Wolfgang Menzel
30.7.1838
September 1838–juni 1839
Sender Christine Stampe
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 1st part of 60 in all.
14.10.1838
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
1839
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyt Magasin for Natur og Menneskekundskab
20.9.1840
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavns Morgenblad
Vinter 1840-41
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 15th part of 60 in all.
11.4.1844
Sender E.A. Hagen
10.5.1844
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dansk Ugeskrift, N.L. Høyen