31.1.1810

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt

Having no portrait of her husband, Caroline von Humboldt and the couple’s children often visit Th...

19.5.1810

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt

In Thorvaldsen’s workshop, Caroline von Humboldt has again viewed the bust of her husband. She ap...

6.10.1817

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Christian Daniel Rauch

Many young artists in Rome are ill, and Thorvaldsen is not feeling very well either. He has compl...

30.10.1817

Sender Caroline von Humboldt

Recipient Wilhelm von Humboldt

Humboldt has just celebrated her son-in-law August von Hedemann’s birthday with about twenty gues...

13.3.1818

Sender Wilhelm von Humboldt

Recipient Caroline von Humboldt

Humboldt remarks jokingly that the fact that his bust has been miscoloured must be the punishment...

17.1.1819

Sender Franziska Caspers

Recipient Charlotte Thierry

Thorvaldsen has guided Caspers through the Vatican museum by torchlight. She admires his inspirin...

1820

Sender James Elmes

Recipient Omnes

A description of the sculpture gallery at Woburn Abbey, including three works by Thorvaldsen, Pri...

7.3.1821

Sender Franziska Caspers

Recipient Charlotte Thierry

Caspers has sent a crate with a plaster portrait of Thorvaldsen to Thierry through a Mr. Abendrot...

Antagelig 1822

Sender ? (Fru) Butler Claxton

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mrs. Claxton has visited Thorvaldsen’s workshop and wants to knpw the price of a bust of Lo...

24.9.1825

Sender Johan Gunder Adler

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Most of Thorvaldsen’s artworks have arrived safely in Copenhagen though some of the plaster...

1.4.1828

Sender Mathilde Theresia von Irgens-Bergh

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

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4.5.1829

Sender Christian Horneman

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Hornemann reports the latest gossip from the Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen and about their m...

20.5.1829

Sender Christian Horneman

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Hornemann recommends the composer Frølich, who intends to spend a year in Italy. He does not like...

10.7.1830

Sender Wilhelm von Humboldt

Recipient Caroline von Humboldt den yngre

Humboldt is against his children’s proposal to place Goddess of Hope at the top of the monument t...

29.7.1830

Sender Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten

Recipient Omnes

An unnamed woman sees Thorvaldsen’s monument to Eugène de Beauharnais in St. Michael’s Church in ...

1.3.1831

Sender Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Recipient Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Mendelssohn has seen George Gordon Byron, cf. A130, in clay during a visit to Thorvaldsen’s works...

5.2.1833

Sender Jan Radziwonski

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Dr. Jan Radziwonski forwards a letter from Zofia Potocka and reminds Thorvaldsen that Józefina Ma...

6.12.1833

Sender Friederike Brun

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

Brun is eager to have the crates with Thorvaldsen’s marble works opened. Hermann Ernst Freund is ...

9.9.1835

Sender Verein für Schiller's Denkmal

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The chairman of the Association for the Schiller Monument, Georg von Reinbeck, writes about great...

1836

Sender Andreas Munch

Recipient Omnes

Poem in 14 stanzas about a young and inquisitive poet’s meeting with art. In “The Castle” he is s...

29.5.1839

Sender Verein für Schiller's Denkmal

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

The Association declares the Schiller Monument completed after the unveiling ceremony on the eve ...

July-September 1839

Sender Christine Stampe

Recipient Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 7th part of 60 in all.

16.1.1842

Sender Mathilde von Waldenburg

Recipient Bertel Thorvaldsen

von Waldenburg asks for a cast of The Adoration of the Shepherds, A570, and Thorvaldsen’s s...