Accounts of Journeys
See also: Christian 8.’s Journey Abroad 1818-1822 · Travel Documents · Journey to Munich and back, January-March 1830 · Journey to Denmark, August-September 1838 · Journey to Denmark, July-October 1819 · Journey to Denmark, October 1842 · Journey to Italy, 1796-1797 · Journey to Rome, August-December 1820 · Journey to Rome, May-September 1841 · Travelling Expenses
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copy of Peder Pavels’ diary and drafts of Thorvaldsen’s diary from Malta 1796-97.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kunstakademiet, København
Thorvaldsen’s first report to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts since his departure from Cope...
Georg Zoëga
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zoëga sends Thorvaldsen a parcel with some of the clothes the sculptor left behind after his visi...
Poul Scheel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Scheel sends greetings to his friends in Rome. He recommends the island of Menorca, which is said...
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman apologizes for the letter being sent so late. He describes the tribulations of his nine-day...
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman has received the things he forgot in Rome and wonders why he hasn’t received any letter fro...
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ekman has returned to Venice from Padua and is soon to continue to Trieste. He has received most ...
Johan Jacob Ekman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
After a difficult journey, Ekman has arrived in Vienna, where he has received a letter from Thorv...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen asks Lund to deliver a letter from him to Maria Zoëga. He has remained in Florence an...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
J.L. Lund
Thorvaldsen is happy that J.L. Lund has had his grant prolonged so that he can stay in Rome for a...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Fragment of a draft letter: Thorvaldsen informs Schubart that he is coming to Rome after two days...
Carl Gotthard Grass
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Grass describes his arrival at the town of Treia and his negative impression of the local inhabit...
Johan Georg Wahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wahl relates his journey from Rome to Pisa via Florence. He writes that the Schubarts are very di...
Johan Georg Wahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Wahl gives a cheerful description of his journey to Montenero via Pisa. His health has improved a...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen has arrived safely at Montenero, but the journey took a long time due to bad weather....
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund’s travel experiences on his return to Denmark after eight years in Rome. He asks Thorv...
Hans West
C.F. Høyer, Bertel Thorvaldsen
West tells Thorvaldsen and Høyer about his journey from Rome to Florence. The letter deals primar...
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling, C.R.W. Wiedemann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.R.W. Wiedemann asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to his niece Auguste Böhmer, A700-A703. T...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted has been on a short trip to Leghorn to get some money. He has visited Montenero and ask...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen writes that he has arrived safely at Montenero. Since it is St. Anne’s Day, he though...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
C.W. Eckersberg
O.O. Bagge
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Andrea Manazzale
Omnes
A reference to Thorvaldsen’s workshops in Vicolo delle Colonnette near Piazza Barberini in Rome.
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
On the top of the sacred Monte Cavo in the Alban Hills, Humboldt, Thorvaldsen, and others have en...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius’ diary describing a four-day hiking and horse riding trip to the Alban Hills with...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The travel account of J.L. Lund for the journey from Rome to Copenhagen July-October 1819.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...
Paweł Maliński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maliński’s travel account for Thorvaldsen’s journey from Warsaw to Rome October to De...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Leaves Rome after a long visit. Thorvaldsen and other artists take leave of the royal couple at L...
P.O. Brøndsted
Jens Møller
Brøndsted describes a trip he has made in the company of Thorvaldsen and his assistant, Tenerani....
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At the Simplon pass, where they have broken their journey, Szymanowska sits up late while the oth...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska writes three weeks after her arrival in London. She has written to Cornelia Rossi Mar...
NN, Redaktørerne ved Nyt Aftenblad
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Ditlev Martens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Martens has returned from Sicily and Calabria and sends a detailed account of his journey. In spi...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The crates with Thorvaldsens art works has arrived in Leghorn. They have been reloaded on a Danis...
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau asks Thorvaldsen for help in connection with Prince Frederik’s (7.) impending visit to Ro...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
H.W. Bissen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bissen recounts his journey on foot to Florence and mentions that he has seen Thorvaldsen’s Chris...
Christian Gottfried Daniel Stein
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen describes his visit to the marble quarries at Carrara.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen visits the cemetery Campo Santo in Pisa, where he sees Thorvaldsen’s relief Monument to ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
The architect Benjamin Schlick has maligned Thorvaldsen, his meanness, and his way of treating yo...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Thorvaldsen has been for a walk with Andersen, holding his hand.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
Andersen has visited Thorvaldsen for the last time before his departure from Rome. He was shown t...
Bernhard von Beskow
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Fritz Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
From the island of Ischia, Fritz Paulsen writes about their daily life with the sons Albert og Ca...
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion to the country near Rome. She gives a detailed descripti...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christine Stampe
Thorvaldsen accompanies Jens Arenholt Gottfred Hartmann and Wilhelm Matthiä to the Custom House, ...
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 20th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 21th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 23th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 24th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 25th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 22th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 28th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 26th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 27th part of 60 in all.
John Gibson
Margaret Sandbach
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 29th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 30th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 31th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 32th part of 60 in all.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
H.C. Andersen
H.C. Andersen
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Just Mathias Thiele
Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele’s notes on Thorvaldsen’s journey to Rome in August-December 1820.
Tidligst 1878, senest 1905 (1835-1836)
Charles Bowyer Adderley
Omnes
Adderley describes his stay in Rome in 1835-36, when he stayed with Thorvaldsen for a time. He wa...