20.2.1796
Sender L. Massimi
Recipient Georg Zoëga, Maria Zoëga
Maria and Georg Zoëga are given permission to eat meat during Lent.
17.5.1796
Sender Giuseppe Meli
Recipient Georg Zoëga
Prescription for medicin to Georg Zoëga.
19.11.1796
Sender Carl Ludwig Fernow
Recipient Johann Pohrt
Fernow asks Pohrt to see to, that Thorvaldsen brings him books to Rome, as Fernow erroneously bel...
31.12.1796
Fernow mentions the Danes he has met in Rome. Thorvaldsen has not yet arrived.
8.9.1797
Sender Georg Zoëga
Recipient Arveprins Frederik
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
24.10.1797
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zoëga sends Thorvaldsen a parcel with some of the clothes the sculptor left behind after his visi...
Efter 23.1.1798
Sender Heinrich Keller
Eulogy for the Swiss sculptor Johann Jakob Schmid.
26.3.1798
Sender Charles Bassi
Due to language difficulties, Bassi’s letter has been delayed. He asks Thorvaldsen to press one R...
9.5.1799
Sender Wilhelm von Uhden
Recipient Anna Maria Uhden
Wilhelm von Uhden declares that his divorce from Anna Maria Uhden is entirely due to irreconcilab...
3.12.1799
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
28.1.1800
Recipient Frederik Obelitz
5.3.1800
Sender Johann Daniel Lawaetz
Lawaetz reports that he has transferred 100 rix-dollars from Nicolai Abildgaard / the Royal Danis...
10.4.1800
Sender Poul Scheel
Scheel sends greetings to his friends in Rome. He recommends the island of Menorca, which is said...
24.12.1800
Scheel has been allowed to enclose a letter to Zoëga in a letter from Friedrich Münter. After hav...
7.1.1801
Georg Zoëga attests to the authorities that Bertel Thorvaldsen is a Danish sculptor, supported by...
24.2.1801
Sender Johan Jacob Ekman
Ekman apologizes for the letter being sent so late. He describes the tribulations of his nine-day...
10.3.1801
Ekman has received the things he forgot in Rome and wonders why he hasn’t received any letter fro...
Sender C.H. Anckarsvärd
Anckarsvärd thanks Thorvaldsen for their friendship in Rome and asks him to arrange the transport...
10.5.1801
After a difficult journey, Ekman has arrived in Vienna, where he has received a letter from Thorv...
20.5.1801
Scheel thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted his assignment. He further specifies his order for ...
22.6.1801
Sender Joh. Hein. Wulffen
Wulffen forwards a letter from Doctor Scheel to Thorvaldsen and explains that Scheel has told him...
4.10.1801
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that the last instalment of his travelling grant has been sent to ...
11.1.1802
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich has received Thorvaldsen’s letter about two crates sent from Rome via Georg Zoëga. The cra...
15.2.1802
Ulrich reports that the four crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Leghorn have been taken aboard Captai...
24.12.1802
Sender Friederike Brun
Recipient Omnes
27.1.1803
29.3.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley is delighted that Thomas Hope’s commission for Jason with the golden fleece, A52, has pro...
2.9.1803
Recipient Herman Schubart
Because of illness, Thorvaldsen has had to have the bas-relief Briseis and Achilles cast before h...
1.11.1803
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
6.12.1803
Stanley apologizes for not having come to Rome yet but promises that he arrive in January. He was...
28.2.1804
Stanley is recovering from his illness and has visited Schubart, who has informed him of the deat...
26.3.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Recipient Frederik 6.
Schubart tries to persuade Crown Prince Frederik (6.) to commission works from Thorvaldsen for th...
22.5.1804
Stanley is sad that Thorvaldsen has left Naples. He hopes to recover completely from his illness ...
18.6.1804
Sender C.F. Hansen
Hansen is going to commission works for Christiansborg from Thorvaldsen, but as the rebuilding of...
2.7.1804
Schubart asks Thorvaldsen to let him know when he is coming to Montenero, where he can stay and w...
Primo august 1804
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen thanks Hansen for his invitation to contribute to the decoration of Christiansborg. H...
11.8.1804
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and looks forward to their reunion in Rome. He informs Tho...
29.8.1804
Scheel tells Zoëga to give his regards to Thorvaldsen and ask him not to delay the bust Scheel ha...
26.11.1804
Schubart wants to know if Thorvaldsen will accept the commission of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1. B...
15.6.1805
Sender København Kunstakademiet
The Academy of Fine Arts announces that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor of sculpture.
18.6.1805
Sender C.F. Stanley
Recipient C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley Senior writes that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of Fine Arts i...
Medio august 1805
Sender Conrad Rantzau
Rantzau tells Thorvaldsen that he has sent a bill of exchange for 300 piastres to Rome through Zo...
16.8.1805
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
24.8.1805
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
16.9.1805
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
30.9.1805
Schubart apologizes for not having written for a long time. Stanley is welcome to send him his le...
Schubart is pleased to hear that Thorvaldsen – who is now in Rome – enjoyed being with him at Mon...
11.11.1805
Schubart writes that he has forwarded Stanley’s letter to the Academy of Fine Arts in Copen...
16.11.1805
Sender C.F. Høyer
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
C.F. Høyer has just arrived in Rome. He reports to Nicolai Abildgaard that Thorvaldsen has invite...
28.2.1806
Høyer reports on his activities in Rome. He is happy to stay with Thorvaldsen.
6.3.1806
Sender Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr
Stuhr has arrived at Leghorn and informed Herman Schubart that his busts of A.P. Bernstorff, A207...
23.5.1806
Schubart tells Abildgaard about C.F.F. Stanley’s death. He encloses Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye&...
2.6.1806
Schubart confers with Zoëga on smuggling a collection of antique coins from Rome to Leghorn on be...
28.7.1806
Ulrich sends a bill for the remainder of the cost of the transport of crates from Leghorn to Cope...
8.8.1806
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
9.1.1807
Schubart summarizes to Thorvaldsen their mutual financial status and tells him to inform him if h...
9.3.1807
Schubart is pleased that Thorvaldsen has received commissions from Denmark. He is going to ask Ch...
23.4.1807
Sender P.O. Brøndsted
Recipient P.O. Brøndsted
Brøndsted has met August Wilhelm Schlegel, who has stated that Thorvaldsen is one of the best con...
29.4.1807
Sender Laurits Engelstoft
On behalf of Marcus Gerhard Rosencrone, Engelstoft asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portrait bust in...
4.5.1807
Sender Accademia Italiana, Johann Paul Schulthesius
Thorvaldsen is nominated honorary member of the Accademia Italiana. He is asked to forward his bi...
8.6.1807
Sender Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
A.G.D. Moltke transfers 200 piastres for his bust, cf. A212, regretting the delay. He would like ...
23.9.1807
Zoëga writes that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome and is very depressed about the bombardment of...
9.1.1808
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
9.9.1808
Recipient Carl Anton Graff
Greetings and reports from mainly the Danish-German art society in Rome.
19.9.1808
Sender NN
The commentary for this bill is not available at the moment.
17.11.1808
Tidligst 1809
Brøndsted invites Thorvaldsen to come and hear news from Greece.
Brøndsted forwards a letter and encloses a bill for some letters which he has sent on Thorvaldsen...
20.1.1809
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
20.2.1809
Sender Antonio Capri, Pietro Tomati
Receipt for the remaining rent of the recently deceased Georg Zoëga, paid by Thorvaldsen.
7.7.1809
1810
Sender Giuseppe Antonio Guattàni
2.5.1810
Sender Hans West
West contacts Thorvaldsen in Rome. He complains of loneliness and lack of knowledge about the cit...
7.7.1810
Recipient Christian 8.
28.7.1810
Scheel has heard that Thorvaldsen has not yet begun work on the bust he has commissioned. For thi...
Før 12.8.1810
20.12.1810
Keller recommends his wife’s brother, the engraver Filippo Tosetti, to Thorvaldsen with ref...
7.9.1811
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Humboldt recommends the Prince of Anhalt-Pleß. She misses Rome. She writes about the development ...
24.12.1811
Sender Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker
Ca. 1812
6.7.1813
Brøndsted has been on a short trip to Leghorn to get some money. He has visited Montenero and ask...
Januar 1814
Sender Friedrich Karl Ludwig Sickler
Januar 1815
2.12.1815
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
Antagelig 1816
Sender Charles Robert Cockerell
A dedication to Thorvaldsen on an etching.
18.7.1816
16.10.1816
Sender Charles François Mazois
26.11.1816
Sender Francesco Peter
Recipient Antonio Ceci
18.2.1817
Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...
17.6.1817
Sender Georgina M. Waddington
Waddington informs Thorvaldsen that her daughter is to marry Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen, wh...
18.6.1817
14.8.1817
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Humboldt calls Thorvaldsen’s restoration of the Aeginetes a “wonder”. On the other ha...
16.8.1817
Sender Edward Dodwell
Dodwell recommends the English sculptor John Gibson to Thorvaldsen. Gibson is to study in Rome fo...
21.8.1817
December 1817
Sender Lauritz Kruse
A prospectus in which Kruse invites his fellow countrymen to contribute to the acquisition of Tho...
1818
Sender August Wilhelm Kephalides
The commentary for this guide is not available at the moment.
1.1.1818
Kruse encloses the prospectus in which the Danish population is invited to contribute to the acqu...
Efter 1.1.1818
A prospectus in German in which Kruse invites his Danish-German fellow countrymen in Schleswig, H...
2.1.1818
Brøndsted has finally received an answer from Thorvaldsen to his latest letters, one of which has...