Journey to Rome, August-December 1820
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See also: Sojourn in Denmark, 1819-20 · Accounts of Journeys · Journey to Denmark, July-October 1819
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen has postponed answering Mokronowski’s letter because he has been waiting to get vario...
Franziska Caspers
Charlotte Thierry
Thorvaldsen has guided Caspers through the Vatican museum by torchlight. She admires his inspirin...
Christian Ditlev Reventlow
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...
Franziska Caspers
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Caspers suffers because she has not heard from Thorvaldsen. She often reads about him in the news...
Elisabetta Catalani Marini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Marini would have liked to welcome Thorvaldsen personally but suspects that there are too many pe...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.
Jørgen Koch
Johan Gunder Adler
Information that Thorvaldsen has not yet commenced his journey from Copenhagen to Rome.
Sulpiz Boisserée
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On the occasion of Goethe’s seventieth birthday, Boisserée told Thorvaldsen about his plans for a...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski reminds Thorvaldsen of his promise to visit Warsaw during the summer. He wonders whet...
Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moltke declines an invitation to attend the farewell party to Thorvaldsen at the Royal Shooting S...
N.T. Bruun
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Song to Thorvaldsen on the occasion of his approaching departure from Copenhagen.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Caroline von Humboldt
Rauch has heard from J.L. Lund that Thorvaldsen has changed his travel plans and hopes to see him...
Joseph Hambro
Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia
Hambro in Copenhagen issues a letter of credit for 2,500 ducats to Thorvaldsen on Torlonia in Rome.
Peder Horrebow Haste
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...
Brødrene Tutein
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen receives a letter of credit for 6,000 Hamburger banco in connection with his journey ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sulpiz Boisserée
Thorvaldsen is flattered and accepts a commission to execute a frieze with bas-reliefs for a monu...
A.C. Kierulff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvalden’s passport for his journey from Copenhagen to Italy via Warsaw.
Peter Theodor Schorn
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian Horneman
Thorvaldsen’s greeting in Christian Horneman’s album.
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Christian Carl Friedrich August, Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe
Song on the occasion of the betrothal of Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe and Christian Carl Friedrich A...
Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Omnes
The newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has left Copenhagen for Italy. Frederik 6. has presented h...
Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende
Omnes
Newspaper clipping on Thorvaldsen’s departure from Copenhagen.
H.F.J. Estrup
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Estrup invites Thorvaldsen to visit him and the family Scavenius at Klintholm Manor.
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Louise Juliane von Bertouch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A poem to Thorvaldsen about his bachelorhood.
Jørgen Koch
Johan Gunder Adler
Thorvaldsen intends to travel via Poland to Italy in the company of the Danish architect Simon Ch...
Carl Schultzen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A receipt for changing Danish specier to ducats in Berlin.
Heinrich Hopfgarten
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hopfgarten invites Thorvaldsen for a visit and asks him to carry a letter to his brother.
Karl August Böttiger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Böttiger invites Thorvaldsen to his lecture in the antique gallery in Dresden.
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Bertel Thorvaldsen
Fragment of a hotel bill from Thorvaldsen’s stay in Breslau / Wrocław.
Christian Daniel Rauch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rauch hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Warsaw. He encloses a small metal relief as a ...
Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Omnes
Notice mentioning, among other things, Thorvaldsen’s expected arrival in Warsaw.
C.F. Høyer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Høyer forwards a letter from H.E. Freund in Rome to Thorvaldsen, who is on his way through Europe...
P.O. Brøndsted
Marie Aagaard
Brøndsted is pleased that Thorvaldsen has met the Aagaard family and his own children before leav...
Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Omnes
Notice about the construction of the Kościuszko Mound at Kraków.
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
The newspaper Nyeste Skilderie reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.
Redaktørerne ved Dagen
Omnes
The newspaper Dagen reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...
Redaktørerne ved Oesterreichischer Beobachter
Omnes
An Austrian newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Warszaw.
Paweł Maliński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maliński’s travel account for Thorvaldsen’s journey from Warsaw to Rome October to De...
Sulpiz Boisserée
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Boisserée writes that he cannot meet Thorvaldsen in Munich as he is in Paris in connection with h...
Redaktørerne ved Il Messaggere Tirolese
Omnes
Thorvaldsen arrives in Vienna after a stay at Troppau, where he met the Russian and the Austrian ...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...
Jørgen Koch
Simon Christian Pontoppidan
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian Frederik Zeuthen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zeuthen asks Thorvaldsen to notify him when he leaves Vienna.
Franz Ludwig Sartorius
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sartorius writes that he has arranged for Thorvaldsen to inspect the site for the projected monum...
G. Emiliani
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Jørgen Koch
Franz Heger
Thorvaldsen’s arrival in Rome is expected any moment. He has just arrived in Verona.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Rides out (in vain) to meet Thorvaldsen, who is on his way to Rome.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome that day and has tea in the evening with Christian (8.) Frederik ...
Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung
Omnes
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva has heard that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome after his trip to Denmark and congratul...
Franziska Caspers
Charlotte Thierry
Caspers has sent a crate with a plaster portrait of Thorvaldsen to Thierry through a Mr. Abendrot...
Frederik Julian Christian von Bertouch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertouch sends warm regards and some news to Thorvaldsen. Among other things, he mentions Clemens...
Louise Juliane von Bertouch
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertouch sends warm regards to Thorvaldsen.
Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt
Omnes
The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.
Stanisław Grabowski, Józef Sierakowski, Walenty Sobolewski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The committee expresses great concern regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A...
Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.G.D. Moltke recollects the old days in Italy and his impressions from Thorvaldsen’s workshop. H...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 58th part of 60 in all.
Just Mathias Thiele
Just Mathias Thiele
Thiele’s notes on Thorvaldsen’s journey to Rome in August-December 1820.