Monuments, Comtemporary Figures
Anna Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Anna Potocka describes the excellent qualities of the late Count Włodzimierz Potocki, bo...
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Latin version of George Byron’s name, followed by two literary quotations by Virgil and Ja...
Paolo Prossalendi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Prossalendi forwards a commission for a monument to the British governor-general Thomas Maitland,...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bulzo gives instructions concerning the commission for a monument to the British governor-general...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi informs Thorvaldsen that he will act as an intermediary concerning the commission for a m...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that Dionisio Bulzo himself will visit Thorvaldsen and answer all the sculptorR...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi writes that the cast of a bust of Thomas Maitland, cf. G342, has finally arrived in Venic...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has apparently received a letter from Thorvaldsen which has crossed his own letter to the...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski informs Thorvaldsen that permission has been granted by the Emperor Alexander I to er...
Dionisio Bulzo
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, Bulzo explains the meaning of the subject for the relief which is...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi has forwarded Thorvaldsen’s questions about the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. t...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer to his letter of 27.4.1818 and repeats the contents of...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski writes that since his last letter to Thorvaldsen he has collected all the pictures of...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski stresses that the committee has complete confidence in Thorvaldsen’s execution ...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch’s friends in Rome are deeply worried about his health and ask for news. Thorvaldsen has com...
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch has received requests from Poland to supervise the bronze casting and the shipment of Thorv...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A few days after his previous letter, Sommariva writes to Thorvaldsen again on behalf of the Appi...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In this accompanying letter, Mokronowski writes that Count Kossakowski’s journey to Rome h...
Spiridion Naranzi
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Naranzi presses Thorvaldsen for an answer concerning the monument to Thomas Maitland, cf. A258 an...
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Accounts of payments concerning the following works by Thorvaldsen: A119, A893, A312, A720, A811,...
Pietro Tenerani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Sulpiz Boisserée
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On the occasion of Goethe’s seventieth birthday, Boisserée told Thorvaldsen about his plans for a...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Carbonneaux has been asked by the Polish committee if he will cast the monument to Józef Poniatow...
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka tells Thorvaldsen that she has not written to him because she has asked her brother...
Adam Czartoryski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryski informs Thorvaldsen that Mokronowski died on October 19th, the very day of Józef Poni...
F. Louis Coué
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Coué has received a letter from a Parisian bronze caster who is in contact with Thorvaldsen conce...
Sulpiz Boisserée
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Boisserée recommends the painter Karl Joseph Begas from Cologne, who has received a royal scholar...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Grabowski
Thorvaldsen writes a report on his current Polish commissions. The funerary monument to Potocki h...
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka mentions that she has written three letters to Thorvaldsen without hearing from him...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka
Thorvaldsen thanks Tekla Potocka for her two letters and informs her that the statue of her husba...
Franciszek Antony Wolff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Franciszek Wolff encloses a letter from Tekla Potocka, who has asked him to pay Thorvaldsen an in...
Franciszek Maria Lanci
Anna Potocka
Lanci has made a drawing of the only place in the Wawel Cathedral in Cracow at their disposal for...
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka has written to Thorvaldsen from Poland but has not heard from him. She asks if he h...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At the Simplon pass, where they have broken their journey, Szymanowska sits up late while the oth...
Johann Leeb
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Leeb fears that his report on the completion of the statue Sleeping Cupid has not been received. ...
Edward Czarnecki
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czarnecki reminds Thorvaldsen that he signed a contract 30.9.1820 for a statue of Copernicus, cf....
Redaktørerne ved Archiv for Psychologie, Historie, Literatur og Kunst
Omnes
At the moment, Thorvaldsen is working on the monument to the Duke of Leuchtenberg, Eugène de Beau...
Nicolas Louis Planat de la Faye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Planat de la Faye tells Thorvaldsen that Duchess Augusta Amalia von Leuchtenberg is very pleased ...
Stanisław Grabowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Grabowski reports that the plaster model of Józef Poniatowski, A123, has reached Danzig (Gdańsk) ...
Frederik Ferdinand Friis
Just Mathias Thiele
Thorvaldsen’s own comments to the manuscript of J.M. Thiele’s first biography of Thorvaldsen.
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In his capacity of chairman of a committee, Hobhouse asks Thorvaldsen if he will accept a commiss...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt writes that his wife, Caroline, died in March. She wanted to be buried in the garden of ...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The subscribers to the monument to Lord Byron have held a meeting. They are grateful that Thorval...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Schiller Association commissions a monument to the poet Friedrich Schiller. The Association w...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Angelo Maria Ricci, Niccola Severi
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The members of the Association are delighted with the news that Thorvaldsen is favourably dispose...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
An unnamed woman sees Thorvaldsen’s monument to Eugène de Beauharnais in St. Michael’s Church in ...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Association has received Thorvaldsen’s final commitment to execute the Schiller Monument in S...
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hittorff recommends the French architect Jean Pollet. He hopes to see Thorvaldsen and Rome again ...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska asks Thorvaldsen to let her know if he has started work on a bas-relief commissioned ...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocka sends Thorvaldsen a portrait of her mother-in-law, Julia Potocka, to be used as a model f...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska encloses a letter from Zofia Potocka and asks Thorvaldsen to write to her soon and te...
Justin Ostrowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ostrowski asks Thorvaldsen to create a monument to a 21-year-old man for the cathedral in Krakow....
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted to draw the monument to Artur Potocki. Inste...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for having accepted to draw the monument to Artur Potocki. Inste...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The members of the Association are grateful for the permission to publish the news that Thorvalds...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is asked to make further adjustments to his sketch for the monument to Ponińska’s two...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On an earlier occasion, Thorvaldsen has expressed his interest in executing a sepulchral monument...
Helena Ponińska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ponińska reminds Thorvaldsen to send her a copy of the contract for the monument to her two child...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The chairman of the Association for the Schiller Monument, Georg von Reinbeck, writes about great...
Wolfgang Menzel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Menzel sends his book Reise nach Italien im Frühjahr 1835, which has a printed dedication to Thor...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter informing her that the monument is ready to be se...
Redaktørerne ved Dansk Kunstblad
Omnes
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Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Schiller Association presents Thorvaldsen with a de luxe edition of Schiller’s collected work...
Georg von Reinbeck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the King of Württemberg, Wilhelm I, Reinbeck thanks Thorvaldsen for his readiness to...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A unanimous Goethe committee wants Thorvaldsen to execute a representation of J.W. Goethe for the...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen declares himself willing to execute a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However, he wants ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Draft letter. Thorvaldsen is ready to execute a model for a monument to J.W. von Goethe. However,...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commission to execute a model for a monument to ...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The chairman of the Association, Georg von Reinbeck, reports that the bas-reliefs for the Schille...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copy (abbreviated) of an earlier letter. Thorvaldsen is thanked for his acceptance of the commiss...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen regrets his late answer. He had intended to return to Rome after a brief stay in Cope...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the Schiller Association – and especially on his own behalf – the chairm...
Verein für Schiller's Denkmal
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Association declares the Schiller Monument completed after the unveiling ceremony on the eve ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
The answer to the committee’s most recent letter has been delayed because Thorvaldsen wanted to b...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee is pleased to accept Thorvaldsen’s proposal to execute the models for the Goethe mo...
Just Mathias Thiele
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thiele asks Thorvaldsen to execute a monument to the recently deceased King Frederik 6. He has su...
C. Dalgas, Johannes Ingwersen
Omnes
Johannes Ingwersen and C. Dalgas invite the public to support a monument to Frederik 6. It is pro...
Redaktørerne ved Jyllandsposten
Omnes
The letter criticises several aspects of an article in Aarhus Stiftstidende concerning a monument...
C. Dalgas
Omnes
Dalgas’ article is a response to a letter in the weekly Bidrag til Tidshistorien. Dalgas mentions...
C. Dalgas, Johannes Ingwersen
Omnes
Ingwersen and Dalgas answer Jyllandsposten’s criticism of the proposal for a monument to Frederik...
Redaktørerne ved Jyllandsposten
Omnes
The author criticises a planned monument to Frederik 6. The criticism is levelled against both th...
Christoph Gräbert
Omnes
Christoph Gräbert defends the owner of Himmelbjerget, P. Nielsen, against the Danish poet Steen S...
C. Dalgas
Omnes
Dalgas’ article is the last in the debate about the justification of a monument to Frederik...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee is pleased to have received Thorvaldsen’s sketch of the statue for the Goethe monum...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen is pleased with the Committee’s positive reaction to his first sketch for the Goethem...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Committee has received Thorvaldsen’s new sketch for the Goethe monument. They fully approve o...
C. Dalgas, Johannes Ingwersen
Omnes
The erection of a monument to Frederik 6. on Himmelbjerget has run into problems, so an alternati...
Johanne Luise Heiberg
Omnes
Heiberg discusses Thorvaldsen’s mental faculties and opposes the widespread idea that he is a naï...
Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
The owner of Himmelbjerget refuses the use of this site for a monument to Frederik 6. The hill at...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, J.P. With
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of the commission for a monument to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Castle, , J....
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Hans Wulff
Omnes
The commission for a monument to Frederik 6. officially invites the population of Jutland, the is...
C. Dalgas
Omnes
C. Dalgas is displeased with Hans Wulff’s interference in the work of the commission for a monume...
Hans Wulff
Omnes
Hans Wulff defends himself against C. Dalgas’ allegations of slight. Wulff tries to explain...
C. Dalgas
Omnes
C. Dalgas maintains his decision to resign from the commission for a monument to Frederik 6. and ...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Johannes Ingwersen, J.P. With, Hans Wulff
Omnes
The members of the commission for a monument to Frederik 6. call on those locally responsible for...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Goethe-kommissionen
Thorvaldsen regrets that he has had to postpone his departure to Rome – and thus to Frankfurt – o...
Goethe-kommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Because of general dissatisfaction with the lack of progress in Thorvaldsen’s execution of the pl...
A.W. Pauli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.W. Pauli has received an answer from the Goethe Committee together with a letter to Thorvaldsen...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Johannes Ingwersen, J.P. With, Hans Wulff
Omnes
The commission for a monument to Frederik 6. announces the amount of money collected so far for t...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Johannes Ingwersen, J.P. With, Hans Wulff
Omnes
The commission for a monument to Frederik 6. announces the results of the subscription for the mo...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Johannes Ingwersen, J.P. With, Hans Wulff
Omnes
The commission for a monument to Frederik 6. announces the result of the subscription for the mon...
Jens Blichfeldt, Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Johannes Ingwersen, Gottfried Rosenberg, J.P. With, Hans Wulff
Omnes
On 4.8.1841 at Skanderborg, a board is formally elected to attend to the business of the already ...
Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende, NN
Omnes
Invitations to contribute to the national subscription to a monument to Frederik 6. on the hill a...
Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende, NN
Omnes
The anonymous author of the text advises against the erection of a monument to Frederik 6. It ref...
J.P. With
Omnes
On behalf of the commission for a monument to Frederik 6., With rejects the criticism of the reig...
NN, Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
The anonymous author criticizes the planned monument to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Ca...
NN, Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
The author of the text wishes to build a folk high school for farm people, instead of a monument ...
Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
The enormous stone for the monument to Frederik 6.s on the hill at Skanderborg Castle has arrived...
NN, Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
The enormous stone for the monument to Frederik 6.s on the hill at Skanderborg Castle has arrived...
Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
The stone for the monument to Frederik 6. has finally reached the hill at Skanderborg castle. It ...
Jens Blichfeldt, Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Johannes Ingwersen, Gottfried Rosenberg, J.P. With, Hans Wulff
Omnes
The commission for a monument to Frederik 6. announces the result of the national subscription to...
Frederik 6.-kommissionen, Gottfried Rosenberg
Omnes
The parish of Alsted on Zealand has complained that their contribution has not been mentioned by ...
Gottfried Rosenberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gottfried Rosenberg writes to Thorvaldsen and asks him to send a bill of exchange for 1,000 rix-d...
H.P. Holst, Redaktørerne ved Ny Portefeuille
Omnes
The text reports on the final form of the moment to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skanderborg Castle...
Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
Aarhus Stiftstidende reports on the final form of the moment to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skande...
C.F. Holbech
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Holbech writes to Thorvaldsen concerning several practical questions related to Thorvaldsen’...
Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
An anonymous author vehemently criticizes the planned monument to Frederik 6. on the hill at Skan...
Johan Bravo
Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo
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Gottfried Rosenberg
Just Mathias Thiele
Rosenberg sends Thiele 1,000 rix-dollars to Thorvaldsen’s estate as final payment to C.F. Holbech...
Gottfried Rosenberg
Just Mathias Thiele
Rosenberg reminds Thiele of the missing payment to the sculptor C.F. Holbech in Rome. Earlier in ...