23.8.1796
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, København Kunstakademiet, Peter Meyn
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts instructs Thorvaldsen on the terms of his travelling grant....
Antagelig efter 1797
Sender ? Constantin
The painter Constantin’s visiting card.
17.1.-14.2.1797
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
27.1.1797
Sender Vincenzo Manno
Recipient Francesco Manno
Vincenzo Manno of Palermo recommends Thorvaldsen to his brother Francesco Manno in Rome.
13.2.1797
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen’s first report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since his departure from Cope...
1.5.1797
Sender C.D. Fritzsch
Fritzsch sends his warm regards and hopes to join Thorvaldsen in Rome soon. Two of Fritzsch’s flo...
Sender Mathias Henrichsen
Mathias Henrichsen sends his regards and reports on friends in Copenhagen. He hopes to become a t...
8.5.1797
Sender Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
13.7.1797
Fritzsch is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome. He himself plans to leave soon on a grant...
14.8.1797
Sender Jørgen West
West is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He relates news of family and friends ...
19.8.1797
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he arrived in Rome on March 8, ...
24.10.1797
Sender Georg Zoëga
Zoëga sends Thorvaldsen a parcel with some of the clothes the sculptor left behind after his visi...
30.12.1797
Sender Carl Ludwig Fernow
Recipient Johann Pohrt
Fernow has been on a week-long excursion in the country surrounding Rome with Thorvaldsen and oth...
Ultimo 1797
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen’s draft of his first report to Abildgaard on his activities in Rome. He has visited t...
5.1.1798
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he has studied Rome and its sur...
20.1.1798
23.3.1798
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
Sandsynligvis 1798-99
Sender Johan David Åkerblad
Recipient Johan David Åkerblad
Åkerblad’s list of artists in Rome 1798-99.
6.9.1798
Sender Repubblica Romana
Thorvaldsen’s residence permit, issued by the Roman republic.
3.1.1799
Thorvaldsen reports to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts that he is still in Rome, and that h...
19.3.1799
Sender København Kunstakademiet
Draft letter from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts informing Thorvaldsen of a one-year prolo...
20.5.1799
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
12.10.1799
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for his support. He tells him that many of the Roman art collection...
3.12.1799
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard reports that the works Thorvaldsen sent to Copenhagen have arrived safely. He complime...
Sender Cornelius Høyer, København Kunstakademiet
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has evaluated Thorvaldsen’s Bacchus and Ariadne, A1, and is...
Antagelig efter 1800
Sender Floriano Pietrocola
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
29.1.1800
Sender Frederik Obelitz
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
5.3.1800
Sender Johann Daniel Lawaetz
Recipient Georg Zoëga
Lawaetz reports that he has transferred 100 rix-dollars from Nicolai Abildgaard / the Royal Danis...
4.4.1800
Thorvaldsen is delighted that the work he has sent to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts has w...
Thorvaldsen has received Abildgaard’s latest letter and thanks him for everything he does to prom...
Thorvaldsen’s parents are delighted with the latest letter from their son, especially because a f...
10.4.1800
Sender Poul Scheel
Scheel sends greetings to his friends in Rome. He recommends the island of Menorca, which is said...
21.7.1800
Abildgaard relates that some people in Copenhagen have accused Thorvaldsen of being lazy in Rome,...
24.10.1800
Thorvaldsen reports that the transportation of two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danis...
24.12.1800
Scheel has been allowed to enclose a letter to Zoëga in a letter from Friedrich Münter. After hav...
27.3.1801
Sender Johan Jacob Ekman
Ekman has returned to Venice from Padua and is soon to continue to Trieste. He has received most ...
22.4.1801
Thorvaldsen reports that the two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine ...
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 ...
2.7.1801
Ekman is worried that he has not heard from Thorvaldsen and fears that his bill of exchange and l...
4.10.1801
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received a letter from Thorvaldsen as rumours in Copenhagen...
Abildgaard informs Thorvaldsen that the last instalment of his travelling grant has been sent to ...
15.2.1802
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich reports that the four crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Leghorn have been taken aboard Captai...
20.3.1802
Thorvaldsen reports that Captain Berger has agreed to ship five crates with artworks, books etc. ...
Antagelig april 1802
Recipient Jørgen West
Thorvaldsen complains that he has not received any letter for a long time.
22.4.1802
Recipient Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen begs his father to send him a letter as he is longing for news from Copenhagen. He ex...
24.12.1802
Sender Friederike Brun
Recipient Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
27.1.1803
24.5.1803
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley informs Thorvaldsen about his illness. He has to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. ...
2.6.1803
Sender Johann Gottfried Schadow
6.6.1803
Stanley’s illness forces him to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. He is frustrated that thi...
27.9.1803
Stanley is sorry that Thorvaldsen has been ill, but he is happy that the sculptor has found lodgi...
17.1.1804
Abildgaard is happy about Thorvaldsen’s success in Rome. He has received the busts Thorvaldsen se...
21.1.1804
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart reports on his efforts to obtain commissions for Thorvaldsen from Denmark. Through her h...
25.2.1804
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has left him incapable of wor...
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has...
Third draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence due to an illness which has ...
28.2.1804
Stanley is recovering from his illness and has visited Schubart, who has informed him of the deat...
27.3.1804
Stanley requests permission from the Royal Academy to remain in Naples until he has recovered fro...
Antagelig april-juni 1804
Sender Arnold Wallick
Arnold Wallick sends greetings to Thorvaldsen from Rome and asks him whether the bust of Mathias ...
5.4.1804
Stanley has been well and ill by turns all winter. He will not be able to come to Rome until he h...
10.4.1804
Stanley is not sure if Thorvaldsen received his last letter and writes more or less the same thin...
20.4.1804
Sender Maria Zoëga
Maria Zoëga is disappointed that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen and hopes that her letter wil...
Før 4.5.1804
Sender Irina Vorontsova
Countess Vorontsova writes that she has not received an answer to her letter asking Thorvaldsen w...
4.5.1804
Sender Fyodor Matveyev
The Russian painter Fyodor Matveyev forwards a letter from Countess Irina Vorontsova, who through...
7.5.1804
Recipient Irina Vorontsova
Thorvaldsen has learned from Countess Vorontsova’s letter that she has not received his answer no...
19.5.1804
Sender J.F. Clemens
Recipient J.L. Lund
On behalf of Johan Bülow, Clemens inquires about Thorvaldsen’s price of a marble copy of an...
Juni-primo juli 1804
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to deliver a letter from him to Maria Zoëga. He has remained in Florence an...
Før 18.6.1804
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient Christian 8.
Prime Minister Christian Ditlev Reventlow is considering having sculptures for the new Christians...
Efter 9. og før 16.7.1804
Thorvaldsen is happy that J.L. Lund has had his grant prolonged so that he can stay in Rome for a...
13.7.1804
Sender J.L. Lund
Lund sends greetings and requests from Anna Maria Uhden. He informs Thorvaldsen that he has given...
Efter 16.7. og senest 6.8.1804
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to take care of his studio while he is gone. He thanks him for having assis...
6.8.1804
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks ...
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard how devastated he was when he received the ...
Thorvaldsen thanks Lund for having assisted him in a financial matter but asks him not to give an...
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
11.8.1804
Lund thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and looks forward to their reunion in Rome. He informs Tho...
16.9.1804
Stanley is planning to remain near Naples until the middle of October and then go to Rome. He wri...
2.11.1804
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Efter 7.11.1804-før 12.6.1806
Sender Johann Christian Reinhart
Reinhart invites Thorvaldsen to dinner at Elisa von der Recke’s house.
30.11.1804
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late reply and informs Schubart that he is finishing Bacchus, A2. ...
26.12.1804
Sender Antonio Canova
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard, København Kunstakademiet
Canova thanks Abildgaard for his nomination as a member of the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts,...
28.12.1804
Schubart and his wife have moved from Montenero to Pisa, where they have to spend the winter beca...
29.12.1804
Abildgaard recommends the bearer of the letter, Carl Christian Seydewitz, to Thorvaldsen. He comm...
31.1.1805
Abildgaard discusses the payment for the transportation of the crates Thorvaldsen has sent to Cop...
9.3.1805
Stanley suggests having Gotskalk Thorvaldsen admitted to Vartov, an institution for the poor. Sta...
15.3.1805
Several messages concerning, among other things, Johan Bülow’s interset in a marble copy of...
10.5.1805
Schubart writes that The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and the portrait busts of himse...
7.6.1805
Sender Christian 7.
Christian 7. appoints Thorvaldsen professor of sculpture at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts...
15.6.1805
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...
1.7.1805
Schubart has read in a newspaper that Thorvaldsen has been appointed professor at the Academy of ...
6.7.1805
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
9.7.1805
Sender J. Müller
Recipient C.F. Høyer
A dedication in a book to C.F. Høyer.
19.7.1805
Schubart thanks Stanley for his letter and asks him to tell Thorvaldsen that he will soon receive...
26.7.1805
Schubart is pleased with Thorvaldsen’s appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts...
28.7.1805
Draft: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that the block of marble he has ordered will be sent in the...
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for his appointment as professor of sculpture at the Academy ...