On Familiar Terms with Thorvaldsen
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sophie Amalie Kurtzhals
Thorvaldsen apologizes to Kurtzhals because he did not have the time to bid her farewell before s...
Frederike Dorothea Hammer, Peter Hanning Hammer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Peter Hanning Hammer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Peter Hanning Hammer is grateful for his friendship with Thorvaldsen. He mentions that Bernhoft h...
Elias Johannes Svane von Støcken
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A greeting in Thorvaldsen’s album.
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Short note from Thorvaldsen’s parents to their son.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen West
A sheet with several fragments in Danish, German and Italian. First two drafts of a letter in Ita...
C.D. Fritzsch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fritzsch sends his warm regards and hopes to join Thorvaldsen in Rome soon. Two of Fritzsch’s flo...
Mathias Henrichsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mathias Henrichsen sends his regards and reports on friends in Copenhagen. He hopes to become a t...
Margrethe Ackermann, Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is grateful for his son’s last letter and happy that he has arrived safely a...
Peder Pavels
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Peder Pavels, the chaplain of the Thetis, sends his greetings and reports what has happened on th...
C.D. Fritzsch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fritzsch is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome. He himself plans to leave soon on a grant...
Jørgen West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West is happy that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He relates news of family and friends ...
Karen Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Karen Thorvaldsen misses her son greatly. She is unhappy with her life and her husband. He gives ...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received news from his son. He advises him to send a work o...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s parents are delighted with the latest letter from their son, especially because a f...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen is happy to have received a letter from Thorvaldsen as rumours in Copenhagen...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen West
Thorvaldsen complains that he has not received any letter for a long time.
Jørgen West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen West asks what to do about the bust of Tyge Rothe, A225, which is in the care of Nicolai A...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley informs his good friend of his arrival in Naples. He has contracted an illness which prev...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is delighted that Thomas Hope’s commission for Jason with the golden fleece, A52, has pro...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley sends his greetings with Herman Schubart, who is leaving for Rome. He commends Schubart a...
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen reproaches his son strongly for not returning to Copenhagen.
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley informs Thorvaldsen about his illness. He has to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. ...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley’s illness forces him to visit the spas on the island of Ischia. He is frustrated that thi...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is sorry that Thorvaldsen has been ill, but he is happy that the sculptor has found lodgi...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter. He very much wants to be in Rome, especially before t...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has received incorrect treatment by his Italian doctor, but his new German doctor is bett...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley reports that Herman Schubart has arrived in Naples. Schubart has spoken highly of Thorval...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley apologizes for not having come to Rome yet but promises that he arrive in January. He was...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for the letter that he has finally received and tries to cheer up the ...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is recovering from his illness and has visited Schubart, who has informed him of the deat...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has been well and ill by turns all winter. He will not be able to come to Rome until he h...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is not sure if Thorvaldsen received his last letter and writes more or less the same thin...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is sad that Thorvaldsen has left Naples. He hopes to recover completely from his illness ...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley complains that Thorvaldsen never writes, but he refuses to repay him in kind. He is recup...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is planning to remain near Naples until the middle of October and then go to Rome. He wri...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley congratulates Thorvaldsen on his appointment as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in ...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is ready to go to Rome but is stopped by the news of an epidmic in the area around Leghor...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and asks him to thank Christian Hornbech for the letter...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley suggests having Gotskalk Thorvaldsen admitted to Vartov, an institution for the poor. Sta...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley requests a meeting with Thorvaldsen and repeats his request the following day.
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley asks Thorvaldsen to help him with some sculptural decorations for some of his architectur...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley teases Thorvaldsen because he has not heard from him for a long time, but suddenly a lett...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley has received a letter from the mayor of Copenhagen concerning Gotskalk Thorvaldsen’...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley ironically describes his amazement at having received two letters from Thorvaldsen. He al...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley’s health is tolerable. Anna Maria Uhden is also well, as is Thorvaldsen’s dog...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted forwards a letter and encloses a bill for some letters which he has sent on Thorvaldsen...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted invites Thorvaldsen to come and hear news from Greece.
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted has been on a short trip to Leghorn to get some money. He has visited Montenero and ask...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
Peder Friis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Friis, a friend of Thorvaldsen’s youth, complains teasingly that he has not heard from Thorvaldse...
Peder Friis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Peder Friis, a friend of Thorvaldsen’s youth, sends a greeting to Thorvaldsen. His son, Frederik ...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted recommends places and friends that he thinks Thorvaldsen should visit on his journey to...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted writes that he has been busy showing the newly arrived Royal Couple from Denmark around...
Peder Horrebow Haste
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...
Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lundbye thanks Thorvaldsen for his promise to perform a task for him in Italy. He asks Thorvaldse...
Niels Schønberg Kurtzhals
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kurtzhals recommends Ole Jørgen Schmidt to Thorvaldsen. He misses the sculptor and hopes that the...
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Omnes
The King of Bavaria, Ludwig I, visits Thorvaldsen’s, Pietro Tenerani’s, and Johann Martin von Wa...
Brødrene Riepenhausen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Karl August Nicander
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicander praises Thorvaldsen and his art as a union of the Nordic and the Greek.
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adam Oehlenschläger recommends the composer J.F. Frøhlich to Thorvaldsen. He is pleased that the ...
Friederike Brun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brun is eager to have the crates with Thorvaldsen’s marble works opened. Hermann Ernst Freund is ...
Antagelig 1839-1840, senest 1843
Adam Oehlenschläger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Oehlenschläger writes a poem to accompany the poem he has written as an illustration of Thorvalds...
Heinrich Steffens
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Steffens recollects with pleasure his encounter with Thorvaldsen in Copenhagen. He praises Thorva...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 21th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stampe is much agitated and writes that she misses Thorvaldsen so much that she feels ill and urg...
Jeanina Stampe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ten-year-old Jeanina asks “sweet” Thorvaldsen to hurry back to Nysø, otherwise she “will not get ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jeanina Stampe
Draft of probably 1843 from Thorvaldsen to Jeanina stampe.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jeanina Stampe
Thorvaldsen thanks ten-year-old, “sweet little” Jeanina for her letter.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 51th part of 60 in all.