3.6.1817
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon “the most perf...
22.6.1817
Caroline von Humboldt wants to buy the reliefs Night, Day and Nessus and Deianira. She praises Ni...
18.10.1817
Sender Wilhelm von Humboldt
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Through his contacts, Humboldt tries to persuade the British Prince Regent to commission Alexande...
December 1817
Sender Lauritz Kruse
Recipient Omnes
A prospectus in which Kruse invites his fellow countrymen to contribute to the acquisition of Tho...
31.12.1817
Sender Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Recipient Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Sommariva authorizes his banker to pay Thorvaldsen a total of 14,000 scudi in instalments of the ...
1.1.1818
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Copy of the contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva concerning the marble version of the ...
Contract between Thorvaldsen and G.B. Sommariva regarding the marble version of the frieze Alexan...
Efter 1.1.1818
A prospectus in German in which Kruse invites his Danish-German fellow countrymen in Schleswig, H...
Count Sommariva has commissioned the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon in marble fr...
2.1.1818 - 17.12.1825
List of Sommariva’s payments to Thorvaldsen for the marble version of Alexander the Great’s Entr...
2.1.1818
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has finally received a commission for the marble version of the frieze Alexander the ...
17.1.1818
Sender NN
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Workshop accounts for the second week of January 1818.
Antagelig 6.2.1818
Sommariva misses hearing news from Thorvaldsen and asks about the progress of the marble version ...
14.3.1818
Sender Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Recipient Erik Gustaf Geijer
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
18.3.1818
Recipient Luigi Sommariva
Sommariva wants to tell his son in person about his commission for a marble version of Thorvaldse...
31.3.1818
Sommariva writes about his travels and the obstacles along the way that have delayed his return t...
7.4.1818
Sender Christian 8.
For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
6.5.1818
Workshop accounts for the first week of May 1818.
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
Workshop accounts for the third week of May 1818.
30.5.1818
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of May 1818.
13.6.1818
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Jonas Collin
Koch writes about Thorvaldsen’s works and commissions. The sculptor has completed Mercury a...
15.6.1818
Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen because he fears that his previous letter has been lost. He asks ...
11.7.1818
Workshop accounts for the second week of July 1818.
18.7.1818
Workshop accounts for the third week of July 1818.
24.8.1818
Sender Redaktørerne ved Wiener Zeitung
29.8.1818
Workshop accounts for the fourth week of August 1818.
3.9.1818
Sommariva is pleased that Thorvaldsen is with their mutual friend Herman Schubart, and that he ta...
Antagelig kort efter 4.10.1818
Accounts of various professional and private expenses.
Efter 11.10.1818
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
25.10.1818
Sommariva has arrived in Italy. He has read in the French press that Frederik 6. has commissioned...
16.1.1819
Sender Redaktørerne ved Janus
1.4.1819
Sommariva writes that unfortunately he has had to give up his plans to go to Rome. He is proud of...
Sender Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Recipient Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop together with Hermann Ernst Freund and admired some of T...
9.4.1819
A few days after his previous letter, Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen again on behalf of the Appi...
28.7.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted tells Aagaard that Thorvaldsen has left Rome, which is good because there were so many ...
30.10.1819-16.2.1822
The commentary for this account is not available at the moment.
2.10.1819
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
16.10.1819
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Schmidt’s song to Thorvaldsen at the celebration at the Royal Shooting Society in Copenhagen.
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
5.10.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
30.12.1820
Sommariva has heard that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome after his trip to Denmark and congratul...
1821
Sender Sydney Morgan
Extract from Lady Morgan’s book Italy mentioning Thorvaldsen’s workshops.
31.1.1821
Sommariva has received the first reproductions in cameo of the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry...
16.5.1821
Sommariva regrets that he has not been able to respond to Thorvaldsen’s letter dated April 11 bec...
16.6.1821
20.6.1821
Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie have visited Sommariva’s villa by Lake Como. Th...
13.12.1821
Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen from Paris, where he has met Christian (8.) Frederik. They have h...
9.2.1822
Sommariva asks Thorvaldsen to send the busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Amalie, cf. ...
28.4.1822
Sommariva thanks Thorvaldsen for having sent the portrait busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Ca...
2.4.1823
Sommarive has heard about the accidental shot that has wounded Thorvaldsen. In Florence, he has t...
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
18.5.1825
The room in which the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, is to be put up ...
11.6.1825
Sommariva has received a letter from de Sanctis stating that a large part of the frieze Alexander...
20.6.1825
Sender Moritz Oppenheim
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen, Emil Wolff
Oppenheim has returned safely from a journey to Northern Italy and the southern part of Germany. ...
5.8.1825
Sommariva is pleased that the frieze Alexander the Great’s Entry into Babylon, cf. A505, will be ...
30.12.1825
This will be Sommariva’s last letter to Thorvaldsen. He writes that he has been seriously i...
11.4.1826
Sender Ferdinando Dôrhel
On behalf of his client, Luigi Sommariva, Dôrhel presses Thorvaldsen for the remaining part of th...
31.8.1826
Thorvaldsen explains that G.B. Sommariva wanted to be portrayed at full length together with Thor...
Thorvaldsen responds to Sommariva’s letter of complaint regarding his father Giovanni Battista So...
Marts 1827
22.10.1829
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
August 1832
The commentary to this review is not available at the moment.
16.5.1833
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen thanks Hansen for his letters in which he mentions the pleasure, expressed by many pe...
27.9.1833
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
A list of the artworks by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
1.10.1833
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
A list of the works by Thorvaldsen that have come to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea.
22.2.1834
The art lovers of Copenhagen are told what the reasons are why it has not yet been possible to ex...
6.7.1841
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
14.6.1842
Sender Christine Stampe
Stampe is much agitated and writes that she misses Thorvaldsen so much that she feels ill and urg...
26.7.1842
Sender John Gibson
Recipient Margaret Sandbach
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
11.4.1844
Sender E.A. Hagen
1.6.1844
Sender Alfred Reumont
28.2.1846
Sender G. Chiappa
In an article about the Malaspina Museum in Pavia, the chronicler Giuseppe Chiappa reports the ne...
December 1847
1874 (1818-23)
Sender Louise Seidler
Tidligst 1878, senest 1905 (1835-1836)
Sender Charles Bowyer Adderley
Adderley describes his stay in Rome in 1835-36, when he stayed with Thorvaldsen for a time. He wa...
1890
Sender Francesco Hayez
Two passages from the famous Italian painter Francesco Hayez’s autobiography, in which Thor...