Antagelig 1817
Sender Edward Divett
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
6.10.1817
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Many young artists in Rome are ill, and Thorvaldsen is not feeling very well either. He has compl...
19.10.1817
Sender Friederike Brun
Recipient Omnes
27.10.1817
Sender Redaktørerne ved Grätzer Zeitung
Paragraph praising Shepherd Boy, A177, and the bust of Georges Gordon Byron.
17.1.1818
Sender NN
Workshop accounts for the second week of January 1818.
16.1.1819
Workshop accounts for the second week of January 1819.
Sender Redaktørerne ved Janus
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
1.5.1819
Workshop accounts for the last week of April until May 1st 1819.
8.5.1819
Workshop accounts for the first week of May 1819.
6.6.1819
Workshop accounts for the first week of June 1819.
9.10.1819-9.11.1822
Accounts for carving the first marble version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177.
2.10.1819
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted blames Thorvaldsen for not travelling to Denmark by the route recommended to him. Brønd...
3.12.1819
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the progress of work in the workshop in Rome. He mentions the work...
1.4.1820
Sender Jørgen Koch
Recipient Christian 8.
Hermann Ernst Freund and Pietro Tenerani will soon begin modelling two small figures probably for...
Sommer 1820
Sender Christian Molbech
Molbech’s account of his visit to Rome, in which he compares Thorvaldsen and Canova and describes...
18.11.1820-1.3.1823
Accounts for carving the second marble version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177.
9.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
11.11.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Diario di Roma
A brief mention of the floor collapse in Thorvaldsen’s workshop 8.11.1820
18.11.1820
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place on 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen...
25.11.1820
Sender Franziska Caspers
Caspers has heard about the collapse of the floor in Thorvaldsen’s workshop and sympathizes with ...
17.-23.12.1820
Sender Christian 8.
Visits Canova’s workshop and comments on the sculptor’s works. Then he visits Thorvaldsen’s works...
28.12.1820
Sender Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
A printed notice on the collapse of the floor in Thorvaldsen’s workshop.
31.12.1820
Recipient Holger Halling Aagaard
Brøndsted is happy that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome. The floor in one of Thorvaldsen’s studi...
17.3.1821-26.12.1822
Accounts of repairs on a marble version of Cupid Triumphant, cf. A22, which had been damaged in t...
25.3.1821
Sender Frederik Julian Christian von Bertouch
Bertouch sends warm regards and some news to Thorvaldsen. Among other things, he mentions Clemens...
12.8.1821
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
17.12.1821
Recipient Charlotte Thierry
7.1.1822
Sender Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
Recipient Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound
The Earl of Minto describes a visit to Thorvaldsen’s and Canova’s workshops and compa...
11.10.1822
Sender G. Caterini
Statement of the account of Francesco Barberini and Thorvaldsen regarding Thorvaldsen’s rent of h...
2.11.1822-20.9.1823
Accounts for carving the third marble version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177.
15.11.1822
Recipient Jørgen Koch
1823
Sender Perugia Accademia di Belle Arti
Recipient Perugia Accademia di Belle Arti
Tidligst 1823, senest 1825
Sender Anton Endres
Recipient Franz Erwein von Schönborn
A survey of works commissioned from Thorvaldsen in 1823 by Schönborn, cf. A177, A233, A827, A411 ...
20.1.1823
25.1.1823
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Contract signed by Thorvaldsen concerning Schönborn’s commission of the statue Shepherd Boy, cf. ...
Sender Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Schönborn writes that he has already paid 1,000 scudi, and that Thorvaldsen can draw the remainde...
Schönborn forwards the contract for his commission from Thorvaldsen and asks the sculptor to ackn...
26.4.-27.12.1823
Accounts for carving the fourth marble version of Shepherd Boy, cf. A177.
1.9.1823
13.9.1823
Sender Johann Martin von Wagner
Wagner writes that progress is being made on the works commissioned by Schönborn from Thorvaldsen.
15.11.1823
Sender Perugia Accademia di Belle Arti, Cesare Massari
Massari acknowledges the receipt of a plaster cast of Shepherd Boy by Thorvaldsen.
1824
Sender Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele describes Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Rome.
Juli 1824
Sender Karl August Böttiger
29.1.1825
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
2.7.1825
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which were put on board the brig St. Croix in order...
30.7.1825
Wagner writes that Thorvaldsen is particularly late in completing the works commissioned from him...
17.2.1827
Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound thanks Thorvaldsen for having taken on the Scottish sculptor Alexander R...
12.4.1829
Sender N.C.L. Abrahams
Abrahams makes sarcastic remarks about the lack of real news from Copenhagen; the marriage betwee...
20.2.1830
Recipient Ludwig Schorn
Schönborn has read that Thorvaldsen is in Munich, and therefore he would like Schorn to ask the s...
28.2.1830
Sender Ludwig Schorn
Schorn has complied with Schönborn’s wish and sends Thorvaldsen’s response regarding the progress...
5.3.1830
Sender Jacob von Krause
1832
Sender Hermann Ernst Freund, Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele repeats Freund’s account of the accident that took place in one of Thorvaldsen’s workshops...
2.-3.4.1834
Sender Redaktørerne ved Dagen
8.8.1835
Sender Heinrich Maria von Hess
Hess writes that he has finished and sent off his portrait of Thorvaldsen. He wants the painting ...
1837
Sender N.L. Høyen
Primo 1837
30.7.1838
Sender A. Martini, NN
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.
Juni-juli 1839
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 3rd part of 60 in all.
Juli 1839
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 59th part of 60 in all.
24.5.1859
Sender Redaktørerne ved Fædrelandet, NN