1771-72
Sender Johan Nordahl Brun
Recipient Omnes
A patriotic song, “To Norway, the Native Land of Giants”, a manifesto for Norwegian i...
Antagelig 1777
Sender Vittorio Alfieri
The commentary for this poem is not available at the moment.
1778
Sender Johannes Ewald
16.4.1787
Sender Christian Frederik Høyer
Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s certificate of confirmation.
29.4.1788
Sender Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Recipient Directionen for de Kongelige Skuespil
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
1791
9.7.1792
Sender Holger Reedtz-Thott
Recipient Det Holstenske Dramatiske Selskab
The commentary for this contract is not available at the moment.
11.8.1793
Sender Johan Hendrich Bärens
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
2.12.1793
Sender Bertel Thorvaldsen
Recipient København Kunstakademiet
Thorvaldsen applies for a grant from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
1.1.1794
Recipient Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
Thorvaldsens sends an excerpt from a poem by the poet Baggesen to Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals.
2.[??].1794
Thorvaldsen apologizes to Kurtzhals because he did not have the time to bid her farewell before s...
8.5.1794
Sender Hans Hansen
Hansen has read a review of Thorvaldsen’s prize-winning relief Peter and John Healing a Lame Man,...
1.1.1795
Recipient Sophie Probsthayn
Thorvaldsen sends a verse of poetry as a New Year’s greeting.
5.1.1795
Thorvaldsen presents the relief Numa Pompilius and Egeria, A748, to the Royal Academy. He also ap...
23.2.1795
Hansen visits Thorvaldsen in his home at 13 Åbenrå, Copenhagen.
2.11.1795
Thorvaldsen’s application for the travelling scholarship of the Royal Danish Academy of Fin...
1796
Recipient NN, Bertel Thorvaldsen
A text on friendship on the back of a drawing by Thorvaldsen depicting a reading couple.
20.2.1796
Sender L. Massimi
Recipient Georg Zoëga, Maria Zoëga
Maria and Georg Zoëga are given permission to eat meat during Lent.
9.3.1796
Recipient Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
Song from Thorvaldsen to the newly-married couple Peter Hanning Hammer and Frederike Dorothea Ham...
14.3.1796
Sender Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
8.4.1796
Sender NN
29.4.1796
Sender Jørgen West
2.5.1796
Sender Johan Michael Fischer
Sender C. West
5.5.1796
Sender Peter Hanning Hammer
Peter Hanning Hammer is grateful for his friendship with Thorvaldsen. He mentions that Bernhoft h...
17.5.1796
Sender Peder Pavels
Sender Giuseppe Meli
Recipient Georg Zoëga
Prescription for medicin to Georg Zoëga.
24.5.1796
Sender Søren Tybring
4.6.1796
Sender Frederik Arentz Krog
5.6.1796
Sender Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
7.6.1796
Sender Jens Ulstrup
Sender Johanne Ulstrup
13.6.1796
14.6.1796
Sender Severine Elisabet Arnette West
24.6.1796
Sender Peder Horrebow Haste
Sandsynligvis 27.6.1796
Sender Eiler Hagerup Schiøtz
Dedication in a book.
27.6.1796
4.7.1796
Sender Mathias Henrichsen
6.7.1796
Sender Paul Steenstrup
14.7.1796
Sender J.P. Mynster
25.7.1796
Thorvaldsen requests an advance on his travelling scholarship.
28.7.1796
Sender Hans Guldberg Sveistrup
29.7.1796
Sender O.H. Mynster
Sender Niels Christian Bang Steffens
Sender Hans Munk
Sandsynligvis august 1796
Sender Elias Johannes Svane von Støcken
15.8.1796
Sender M.F. Liebenberg
20.8.1796
Sender Hieronymus Laub
Sender Georg Laub
23.8.1796
Sender A.P. Bernstorff, Christian 7.
Thorvaldsen’s Italian passport, issued by Christian 7. / A.P. Bernstorff.
Sender A.P. Bernstorff
Recipient Barbaud
Letter of recommendation for Thorvaldsen.
Sender Nicolai Abildgaard, Jens Juel, København Kunstakademiet, Peter Meyn
The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts instructs Thorvaldsen on the terms of his travelling grant....
Recipient Giuseppe Alessi Morellet
24.8.1796
Sender C.D. Fritzsch
27.8.1796
Sender H.A. Schmidt
28.8.1796-1.3.1797
Sender Lorens Henrich Fisker
Recipient Charlotte Amalie Fisker
The commentary for these letter fragments is not available at the moment.
Før 30.8.1796
Sender Johannes Kinchel
Farewell greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Sender Nicolai Veisling Mørch
29.10.1796
Recipient H.A. Schmidt
Thorvaldsen goes rowing in the harbour of Valletta while the frigate Theses is in quarantine.
1.11.1796
Short note from Thorvaldsen’s parents to their son.
3.11.1796
Recipient Frederik 6.
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’s receipt for the payment of the bust of A.P. Bernstorff, A856, delivered to...
Sender Christian Georg Hansen
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...
16.12.1796
Schmidt tells that Thorvaldsen has made his portrait.
30.12.1796
Sender Claus Hvidtfeldt Blom
Sender G.F. Rørbye
31.12.1796
Fernow mentions the Danes he has met in Rome. Thorvaldsen has not yet arrived.
Tidligst 1797
Recipient NN
Thorvaldsen’s signature (fragment of a letter).
Efter 1797
The commentary for this accounting is not available at the moment.
Antagelig efter 1797
Sender Orazio de Vechis
Vechis states the measurements of a block of marble.
Sender Ugu Peretti
The poem draws a parallel between Napoleon I’s achievements and those of Julius Caesar. Just as C...
Sender Gioacchino Montagnani
The Roman clerk Montagnani requests a different and better-paid job.
Antagelig tidligst 1797
Sender ? Constantin
The painter Constantin’s visiting card.
Sender Giulia
Giulia laments that she has to forgo her beloved friend’s company for an entire day.
Januar 1797
Copy of Peder Pavels’ diary and drafts of Thorvaldsen’s diary from Malta 1796-97.
1.1.1797
Sender Andreas Christian Lütken
17.1.-14.2.1797
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
Thorvaldsen’s first report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since his departure from Cope...
28.2.1797
Sender Fabrizio Ruffo
Thorvaldsen’s printed passport, issued by the Neapolitan authorities.
Antagelig marts 1797
Recipient Jørgen West
A sheet with several fragments in Danish, German and Italian. First two drafts of a letter in Ita...
Sender Peter Kauffmann
Short message from Peter Kauffmann to Thorvaldsen.
6.3.1797
Sender Ernst Morace
Recipient Giuseppe Carnesecca
Letter of recommendation for Thorvaldsen from E. Morace in Naples to Giuseppe Carnesecca in Rome.