8.5.1797
Sender Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
8.9.1797
Sender Georg Zoëga
Recipient Arveprins Frederik
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Muligvis omkring 1800
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient NN
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
22.4.1801
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen reports that the two crates with artworks bound for the Royal Danish Academy of Fine ...
August 1803
Sender Carl Ludwig Fernow
Recipient Omnes
5.3.1804
Sender Irina Vorontsova
Countess Vorontsova asks Thorvaldsen to go to the banker Torlonia in order to draft a contract li...
Før 4.5.1804
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...
30.8.1804
Sender Theodor von der Ropp
Ropp repeats in writing his commission for 10 marble busts after antique models and the restorati...
Efterår 1804
Sender Jevdokija Ivanovna Golitsyna
Golitsyna explains that she has written to the banker Torlonia concerning the money she owes Thor...
30.11.1804
Recipient Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late reply and informs Schubart that he is finishing Bacchus, A2. ...
13.12.1804
Countess Vorontsova inquires about the progress of the sculptures she has commissioned and reques...
Sommer 1805
Sender August Wilhelm Schlegel
Recipient Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Omnes
Schlegel reports to Goethe on the art scene in Rome, summer 1805. The commentary to this document...
10.6.1805
Sender Herman Schubart
Schubart forwards the freight bill concerning The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and th...
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
Sender Arnold Wallick
Recipient Christian 8.
2.8.1805
Countess Vorontsova inquires about the sculptures which she has commissioned from Thorvaldsen, an...
30.8.1805
Sender Camillo Landini
Stanley has given Landini a letter from Thorvaldsen, who is at Montenero, and asks for news about...
7.9.1805
Sender C.F.F. Stanley
Stanley’s health is tolerable. Anna Maria Uhden is also well, as is Thorvaldsen’s dog...
20.9.1805
Vorontsova has received a letter from Thorvaldsen in which he tells her that he is working on her...
Efter 21.9.1805
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome, he mentions Caspar Bartholin and C.F...
18.10.1805-26.4.1806
Landini signs for the payment received from Thorvaldsen for the carving of Bacchus.
19.10.1805
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard
Abildgaard is sympathetic to the idea that Thorvaldsen should remain in Rome for the time being b...
1806
The commentary for this text is not available at the moment.
12.1.1806
Countess Vorontsova has ordered the banker Torlonia to pay Thorvaldsen 550 ecus for his works, an...
6.3.1806
Sender Nicolaus Jac. Stuhr
Stuhr has arrived at Leghorn and informed Herman Schubart that his busts of A.P. Bernstorff, A207...
12.4.1806
23.5.1806
Recipient Nicolai Abildgaard
Schubart tells Abildgaard about C.F.F. Stanley’s death. He encloses Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye&...
14.6.1806
Vorontsova is very impatient to receive the long-awaited artworks. Thorvaldsen has informed her a...
18.6.1806
Thorvaldsen thanks Abildgaard for helping Gotskalk Thorvaldsen. The war has given Thorvaldsen fin...
6.7.1806
Sender Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
The banker Torlonia requests the delivery of Thorvaldsen’s sculptures for Countess Vorontsova.
15.8.1806
Schubart urges Thorvaldsen to come to Montenero. He is pleased that the busts of Herman Schubart,...
23.8.1806
Countess Vorontsova is sure that Thorvaldsen has kept his promise and finished the commissioned w...
6.9.1806
Sender C.F. Høyer
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
30.1.1807
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart for a bill of exchange. He has had financial problems because the war...
25.7.1807
Sender Wilhelm Friedrich Gmelin
Gmelin has asked the publisher Domenico Artaria to send three of his engravings after Lorrain to ...
27.12.1807
16.4.1808
Recipient Pierre de Balck
The contract between Thorvaldsen and Balck regarding the execution of a marble relief representin...
21.5.1808
4.2.1809
Recipient Slotsbygningskommissionen
The commentary for this draft is not available at the moment.
Antagelig senest 4.2.1809
Recipient Christian Ditlev Reventlow
Senest 4.2.1809
Senest 22.7.1809
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence, blaming his poor ability to write letters. He has so...
25.7.1809
After a few weeks in Florence, Landini has reached Carrara. He tells Thorvaldsen that he is grate...
Efter 1810
Sender Ludwig 1.
Omkring 1810
Sender Charles Dupaty
24.2.1810
Sender Caroline von Humboldt
Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt
Caroline von Humboldt tells her husband about the presents that she was given by the couple’s art...
Juni 1810
Sender Friederike Brun
Recipient Friederike Brun
The commentary for this note book is not available at the moment.
23.6.1810
Sender Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
5.7.1810
Sender Baron Brown
7.7.1810
Sender Hans West
24.-25.7.1810
Sender Carl Gotthard Grass
The commentary to this article is not available at the moment.
4.10.1810
23.10.1810
Recipient Ludwig 1.
27.10.1810
11.11.1810
16.11.1810
16.12.1810
Sandsynligvis 30.12.1810
List of Theodor von der Ropp’s commission.
30.12.1810
Receipt of payment for three engravings by W.F. Gmelin after Claude Lorrain, sent to Count Adam G...
Omkring 1.1.1811
Sender Wilhelm Malte Putbus
Recipient Rudolph Suhrlandt
18.1.1811
23.1.1811
Ropp is grateful that his works are finished. In his opinion the Jupiter Otricoli is not part of ...
Antagelig 2.2.1811
Recipient Theodor von der Ropp
Thorvaldsen thanks Ropp for the payment of his works. Regarding Jupiter Otricoli, he thinks that ...
2.3.1811
13.3.1811
Recipient Hans West
19.7.1811
Sender Christian Daniel Rauch
Recipient Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch writes that Thorvaldsen has finished Cupid Holding a Butterfly to Hurt it with an Arrow and...
13.8.1811
Sender Friedrich Müller
12.9.1811
Rauch writes about the choice of marble. He finds it offensive that Thorvaldsen publishes his wor...
15.9.1811
Sender Antonio Moglia
Receipt for payment of Antonio Moglia’s marble work on the relief Venus, Mars and Cupid in ...
Antagelig tidligst forår 1812
Thorvaldsen admits that the addressee has every reason to be angry with him.
18.5.1812
Schubart sends a picture as a model for the portrait bust of Henrik Hielmstierne, cf. A210. Agnet...
August 1812
December 1813
Sender G.L. Lahde
Sandsynligvis 1814
Sender G.L. Lahde, Adam Oehlenschläger
1814
Sender Tønnes Christian Bruun de Neergaard
Januar 1814
Sender Friedrich Karl Ludwig Sickler
19.11.1814
Sender C.W. Eckersberg
Recipient J.P. Møller
Januar 1815
Tidligst 1816
Sender Giuseppe Alessandrini
15.3.1816
Sender Jørgen Knudtzon
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to complete and send three commissioned marble reliefs as soon as possi...
19.3.1816
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to buy some antique objects for his friend Alexander Baillie and to res...
3.4.1816
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
27.4.1816
Recipient J.F. Clemens
20.6.1816
Knudtzon has talked to the German publisher and printer Johann Friedrich Wenner about the publica...
Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen har completed Venus with the Apple, A12, and at least 15 portrait busts of Britons.
9.8.1816
Sender J.C. Ulrich
Ulrich asks when the works commissioned by Alexander Baillie and Jørgen Knudtzon will be ready fo...
20.11.1816
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
Sender Hans Carl Knudtzon
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
Antagelig 1817
Sender Edward Divett
17.3.1817
Sender Gabriel Schreiber von Cronstern
24.3.1817
Sender Franziska Caspers
Recipient Charlotte Thierry
Caspers had originally obtained a seat in a coach to go and visit her mother, but to her great an...
Maj 1817
Recipient Jørgen Knudtzon
Thorvaldsen writes that he has been very busy working and showing his workshop to English visitor...