Cancelled Journeys to Denmark
See also: Journey to Denmark, August-September 1838 · Journey to Denmark, July-October 1819 · Journey to Denmark, October 1842
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Thorvaldsen looks well in spite of his severe pains. He is working on the frieze Alexander the Gr...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Humboldt has heard rumours that Thorvaldsen will come through Berlin on his way to Denmark. She w...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen has completed Goddess of Hope, A47, which Caroline von Humboldt greatly admires. The ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Thorvaldsen will not accompany Herman Schubart to Denmark but will leave in the spring in the com...
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Peder Brønnum Scavenius
Scavenius bought cameos after Night, cf. A369, and Day, cf. A370, finished his diary, and went fo...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen expresses his gratitude for two letters from the Building Commission for Christiansbo...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik Is pleased that Thorvaldsen intends to come to Copenhagen in the spring o...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen hopes to see Thorvaldsen and his works for Christiansborg Palace and the Church of Our Lad...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Information that a Danish naval vessel will call at Leghorn in July 1833 in order to bring severa...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The corvette Galathea will arrive at Leghorn around 1.7.1833, and Thorvaldsen is asked to have th...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen confirms receipt of the letter announcing that a naval vessel will arrive at Leghorn ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has been unanimously elected director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and ...
Kunstakademiet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has unanimously been elected director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, and ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
An accident with the marble for the portrait statue of Caroline Amalie makes it impossible for Th...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted recommends the German architect Friedrich Stammann. He asks Thorvaldsen to send some bo...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik is looking forward to seeing Thorvaldsen again in Copenhagen in the autum...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brun is suffering, she has no hope of recovery and wants to die, but she looks forward to seeing ...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The corvette Galathea under the command of Johan Wilhelm Cornelius Krieger left Copenhagen 1.5.18...
Christian 8.
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen should only send plaster casts to the Academy of Fine Arts and not works in marble un...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen is pleased the Thorvaldsen is satisfied with his appointment as director of the Academy of...
Frederik Siegfried Vogt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The corvette Galathea is in Naples, and the captain of the ship wants to know when Thorvaldsen’s ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen regrets that he has not yet begun his planned journey to Copenhagen; the work on the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jonas Collin
Thorvaldsen asks Collin to help him deposit a sum of 20,000 species [40,000 rix-dollars] in the N...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
Thorvaldsen has completed the relief The Fates, A366. He is working on 15-16 new sculptures and w...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen has been awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog, and Christian Freder...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brun is eager to have the crates with Thorvaldsen’s marble works opened. Hermann Ernst Freund is ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen acknowledges receipt of the report on the arrival of his works of art in Copenhagen w...
Jonas Collin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
C.F. Høyer, Redaktørerne ved Raketten
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
By mistake, the Roman postal services have delayed delivery of some of Thorvaldsen’s letters. The...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hermann Ernst Freund
Thorvaldsen’s departure for Denmark is delayed, so he asks Freund to give him a detailed report o...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jonas Collin
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Marie Lehmann
Marie Lehmann
Marie Puggaard writes about an excursion in the company of Danish artists to Tivoli east of Rome....
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard hopes that Thorvaldsen will manage to visit him and his family before their impending de...
Gottlieb Bindesbøll
Jonas Collin
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Aftonbladet
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is worried about Thorvaldsen’s health as he has heard about the outbreak of cholera in R...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen. He reminds him to send the marble relief The Gra...