4.4.1800
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
24.10.1800
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen regrets that his report to the Royal Academy has been delayed. He would have liked to...
22.4.1801
Thorvaldsen reports that the two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine ...
4.10.1801
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that the last instalment of his travelling grant has been sent to ...
August 1803
Sender Carl Ludwig Fernow
Recipient Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
11.3.1803
Sender Jørgen West
Jørgen West asks what to do about the bust of Tyge Rothe, A225, which is in the care of Nicolai A...
15.3.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley informs his good friend of his arrival in Naples. He has contracted an illness which prev...
19.3.1803
Sender Friederike Brun
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Tidligst marts 1803, antagelig senest 1805
Sender Patrick Moir
Patrick Moir requests Thovaldsen’s presence the following morning in order to settle matters rega...
Tidligst 23.3., senest sommer 1803
Sender Finelli & Keller
Thorvaldsen’s contract with the sculptors Pietro Finelli and Heinrich Keller concerning the deliv...
Tidligst 19. og senest 23.3.1803
Recipient Thomas Hope
Transcript of Thomas Hope’s copy of his contract with Thorvaldsen regarding Jason with the Golden...
29.3.1803
Stanley is delighted that Thomas Hope’s commission for Jason with the golden fleece, A52, has pro...
2.6.1803
Sender Johann Gottfried Schadow
November 1803
Brun’s poem to Thorvaldsen’s Jason begins with a rhetorical question: Can it really be true that ...
7.11.1803
Recipient Charlotte Schimmelmann
Petition from Thorvaldsen, drawn up in collaboration with Herman Schubart and addressed to Schuba...
10.1.1804
Sender Jacqueline Schubart
Recipient NN
A fragment of a letter presumably from Jacqueline Schubart, suggesting support for Thorvaldsen. T...
17.1.1804
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
Februar-marts 1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Schubart proposes that C.F. Hansen should commission works by Thorvaldsen for the rebuilding of C...
Omkring 1.2.1804
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
26.3.1804
Recipient Frederik 6.
Schubart tries to persuade Crown Prince Frederik (6.) to commission works from Thorvaldsen for th...
21.7.1804
Sender Laurits Engelstoft
Recipient Rasmus Nyerup
7.12.1804
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
27.9.1805
Schubart recommends Adam Anthony Stratenus and Cornelius Johannes Kneppelhout to Thorvaldsen.
Udgivet 1810
Sender Madame de Staël
Madame de Staël sees Thorvaldsen as the exception that confirms the rule when it comes to the abi...
1810
Sender Giuseppe Antonio Guattàni
23.6.1810
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
13.1.1813
Recipient Jacqueline Schubart
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Januar 1815
Juli 1817
Sender Redaktørerne ved Athene, Rasmus Emil Bruun
Recipient Christian Molbech, NN
Tidligst 1818
The commentary for this list is not available at the moment.
14.3.1818
Sender Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom
Recipient Erik Gustaf Geijer
23.3.1818
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...
Efter 11.10.1818
Sender B.S. Ingemann
Excerpt of Ingemann’s Reiselyren, which describes some of Thorvaldsen’s works.
11.10.1818
Sender Frederik Schmidt
Recipient Frederik Schmidt
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...
6.4.1819
Sender Thomas Hope
Thomas Hope urges Thorvaldsen to finish and deliver Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, commissio...
Antagelig 9.7.1819
Sender Luigi Chiaveri
Chiaveri asks Thorvaldsen to speak to Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia as soon as possible regarding Ja...
30.10.1819
Sender Jens Baggesen
Poem for Thorvaldsen sung at a party in the literary society Clio.
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
Maj 1821
Sender Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Torlonia is disappointed that Thorvaldsen has not complied with the agreement to complete Jason w...
16.6.1821
12.8.1821
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
20.8.1821
Torlonia assumes that Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, is ready to be shipped as Thorvaldsen h...
21.8.1821
Recipient Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Thorvaldsen answers Torlonia regarding Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, which is to be deliver...
15.4.1823
Torlonia has received several letters from Thomas Hope, who is impatient to have the statue of Ja...
10.5.1823
25.10.1823
1824
Thorvaldsen has shown loving magnanimity towards Ida Brun by always having time for her. He playe...
April - juni 1824
Sender NN
Accounts for the roughhewing of the relief Cupid Received by Anacreon, Winter, A827,
1.2.1825 og medio februar 1825
Sender Redaktørerne ved Hesperus, NN
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...
11.3.1826
Sender H.F.J. Estrup
Recipient København Ordenskapitlet
The historian Estrup’s biography of Thorvaldsen for the Chapter of the Royal Orders of Chiv...
Antagelig august 1828
Thorvaldsen sends Hope the statue of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, 25 years after the contr...
8.1.1829
Sender Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Recipient Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
3.8.1829
Hope gratefully acknowledges receipt of Jason with the Golden Fleece, A822, the portrait busts of...
1831
Sender Rembrandt Peale
Peale describes his impression of Thorvaldsen, his works, and his studio practice. He is critical...
Oktober 1832
16.6 og 19.6.1832
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
August 1832
The commentary to this review is not available at the moment.
4.6.1833
Sender Karl Grüneisen, Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
5.2.1835
Sender Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
29.3.1836
Sender Wolfgang Menzel
30.11.1836
1837
26.7.1837
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen, NN
27.7.1837
1838
Sender Karl Herloßsohn
The commentary to this article is not available at the moment.
30.7.1838
Sender A. Martini, NN
2.9.1838
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.
4. og 11.10.1838.
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dannevirke
8.10.1838
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten, NN
9.10.1838
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt, Ludwig Schorn
ca. 1839
Sender Redaktørerne ved Danmarks Hæder i Fortid og Nutid
Vinter 1840-41
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 15th part of 60 in all.
1841
Sender Chr. K.F. Molbech
31.1.1842
Sender Ludvig Müller
Recipient Christian 8.
Müller sends a report to Christian 8. on Danish artists in Rome. He gives a detailed description ...
27.11.1842
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
6.5.1843
1844
Efter 30.3.1844
Sender NN, Caspar Claudius Rosenhoff
April 1844
Sender Frederik Hammerich
8.4.1844
11.4.1844
Sender E.A. Hagen
Sender Frederik Barfod
10.5.1844
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dansk Ugeskrift, N.L. Høyen
28.9.1844
Recipient Ida Brun
1846
21.11.1848
20.12.1850
Sender Redaktørerne ved Fædrelandet
1855
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nordisk universitets-tidsskrift
7.4.1855
Sender Redaktørerne ved For tre Skilling
1857
1874 (1818-23)
Sender Louise Seidler