20.12.1811
Sender Christian 8.
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
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3.9.1812
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4.2.1816
26.2.1817
7.4.1818
For a long time, the Academy of Fine Arts has wished to possess plaster casts of Thorvaldsen’s wo...
10.7.1818
14.11.1819
Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...
6.1.1820
Ca. 1.4.1821
Invitation to dinner with Christian Frederik and Caroline Amalie 6.4.1821 on the occasion of thei...
1.4.1821
Certificate of indebtedness. Christian (8.) Frederik borrows 9000 scudi at an annual interest of ...
17.4.1821
12.8.1821
Describes the inauguration of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, in Lucerne, w...
2.6.1823
26.2.1825
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
25.11.1826
Christian (8.) Frederik wants to know which of Thorvaldsen’s works wil be sent home in the ...
17.3.1827
The letter expresses dissatisfaction with the number of works for the Church of Our Lady and Chri...
7.3.1828
6.3.1830
12.12.1831
For unknown reasons, the letter has been severely damaged. See instead the draft of the letter fo...
Christian Frederik has heard that the Alexander Frieze, cf. A503, and Christ, cf. A82, and John t...
29.12.1832
Christian (8.) Frederik Is pleased that Thorvaldsen intends to come to Copenhagen in the spring o...
26.2.1833
The corvette Galathea will arrive at Leghorn around 1.7.1833, and Thorvaldsen is asked to have th...
30.3.1833
Thorvaldsen has been unanimously elected director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and ...
27.4.1833
Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...
15.11.1833
Thorvaldsen has been awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, and Christian Freder...
4.11.1834
17.2.1835
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14.3.1837
30.12.1837
31.3.1838
29.9.1838
23.1.1840
19.2.1840
A written commission for Christian 4.’s monument for Roskilde Cathedral.
7.9.1840
Christian 8. asks Thorvaldsen to postpone his journey to Italy. He wants to visit him at Nysø at ...
11.7.1841
23.12.1841
Information about the expected arrival at Leghorn of the frigate Thetis and about the sepulchral ...
15.5.1843
Wishes to see Thorvaldsen’s collection of paintings at Charlottenborg in connection with th...