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Journey to Rome, August-December 1820

See Related Articles on this subject: The Journey to Rome, August-December 1820 · Thorvaldsen's Transalpine Journeys

See also: Sojourn in Denmark, 1819-20 · Accounts of Journeys · Journey to Denmark, July-October 1819

9.1.1819

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Mokronowski

Thorvaldsen has postponed answering Mokronowski’s letter because he has been waiting to get vario...

17.1.1819

Franziska Caspers

Charlotte Thierry

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

24.10.1819

Christian Ditlev Reventlow

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

14.11.1819

Christian 8.

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian Frederik complains that Thorvaldsen is in Copenhagen now that he himself will soon be i...

25.12.1819

Franziska Caspers

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Caspers suffers because she has not heard from Thorvaldsen. She often reads about him in the news...

Kort efter 16.12.1820?

Elisabetta Catalani Marini

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Marini would have liked to welcome Thorvaldsen personally but suspects that there are too many pe...

25.5.1820

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Slotsbygningskommissionen

Thorvaldsen firmly declines the proposal of the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace tha...

25.5.1820

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Slotsbygningskommissionen

Thorvaldsen’s copy of the letter dated 25.5.1820, see the comments there.

16.6.1820

Jørgen Koch

Johan Gunder Adler

Information that Thorvaldsen has not yet commenced his journey from Copenhagen to Rome.

18.6.1820

Sulpiz Boisserée

Bertel Thorvaldsen

On the occasion of Goethe’s seventieth birthday, Boisserée told Thorvaldsen about his plans for a...

26.6.1820

Stanisław Mokronowski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Mokronowski reminds Thorvaldsen of his promise to visit Warsaw during the summer. He wonders whet...

28.6.1820

Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Moltke declines an invitation to attend the farewell party to Thorvaldsen at the Royal Shooting S...

28.6.1820

N.T. Bruun

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Song to Thorvaldsen on the occasion of his approaching departure from Copenhagen.

Around 1.7.1820

NN

Bertel Thorvaldsen

A draft for Thorvaldsen’s journey leaving Denmark 1820.

4.7.1820

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...

6.7.1820

Joseph Hambro

Giovanni Raimondo Torlonia

Hambro in Copenhagen issues a letter of credit for 2,500 ducats to Thorvaldsen on Torlonia in Rome.

11.7.1820

Peder Horrebow Haste

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...

7.8.1820

Jens Løye

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Jens Løye agrees to sail Thorvaldsen from Nysted to Rostock.

8.8.1820

Brødrene Tutein

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thorvaldsen receives a letter of credit for 6,000 Hamburger banco in connection with his journey ...

9.8.1820

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian 8.

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

10.8.1820

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sulpiz Boisserée

Thorvaldsen is flattered and accepts a commission to execute a frieze with bas-reliefs for a monu...

10.8.1820

A.C. Kierulff

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Thorvalden’s passport for his journey from Copenhagen to Italy via Warsaw.

10.8.1820

Bertel Thorvaldsen

NN

Farewell greeting from Thorvaldsen to an unknown recipient.

Before 11.8.1820

Peter Theodor Schorn

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

10.8.1820

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Christian Horneman

Thorvaldsen’s greeting in Christian Horneman’s album.

12.8.1820

NN

Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe

Song about maternal love to Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe.

12.8.1820

NN

Christian Carl Friedrich August, Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe

Song on the occasion of the betrothal of Louise Danneskiold-Samsøe and Christian Carl Friedrich A...

12.8.1820

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

The newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has left Copenhagen for Italy. Frederik 6. has presented h...

15.8.1820

Redaktørerne ved Lolland-Falsters Stifts-Tidende

Omnes

Newspaper clipping on Thorvaldsen’s departure from Copenhagen.

16.8.1820

H.F.J. Estrup

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Estrup invites Thorvaldsen to visit him and the family Scavenius at Klintholm Manor.

19.8.1820

Hermann Ernst Freund

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

20.8.1820

Louise Juliane von Bertouch

Bertel Thorvaldsen

A poem to Thorvaldsen about his bachelorhood.

22.8.1820

Jørgen Koch

Johan Gunder Adler

Thorvaldsen intends to travel via Poland to Italy in the company of the Danish architect Simon Ch...

2.9.1820

Carl Schultzen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

A receipt for changing Danish specier to ducats in Berlin.

4.9.1820

Heinrich Hopfgarten

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Hopfgarten invites Thorvaldsen for a visit and asks him to carry a letter to his brother.

9.9.1820

Karl August Böttiger

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Böttiger invites Thorvaldsen to his lecture in the antique gallery in Dresden.

16.9.1820

NN

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Fragment of a hotel bill from Thorvaldsen’s stay in Breslau / Wrocław.

18.9.1820

Christian Daniel Rauch

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Rauch hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Warsaw. He encloses a small metal relief as a ...

18.9.1820

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

Notice mentioning, among other things, Thorvaldsen’s expected arrival in Warsaw.

19.9.1820

C.F. Høyer

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Høyer forwards a letter from H.E. Freund in Rome to Thorvaldsen, who is on his way through Europe...

28.9.1820

P.O. Brøndsted

Marie Aagaard

Brøndsted is pleased that Thorvaldsen has met the Aagaard family and his own children before leav...

30.9.1820

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

Notice about the construction of the Kościuszko Mound at Kraków.

5.10.1820

Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung

Omnes

Allgemeine Zeitung reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Berlin and Dresden, on his coming visi...

7.10.1820

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

A newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Warszaw.

14.10.1820

Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn

Omnes

The newspaper Nyeste Skilderie reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.

14.10.1820

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

The newspaper Dagen reports on Thorvaldsen’s visit to Dresden.

19.10.1820

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Stanisław Mokronowski

A supplementary contract which elaborates the conditions of the original contract of 8.7.1818. A ...

20.10.1820

Redaktørerne ved Oesterreichischer Beobachter

Omnes

An Austrian newspaper reports that Thorvaldsen has arrived in Warszaw.

From 21.10.1820 to 16.12.1820

Paweł Maliński

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Maliński’s travel account for Thorvaldsen’s journey from Warsaw to Rome October to De...

29.10.1820

Sulpiz Boisserée

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Boisserée writes that he cannot meet Thorvaldsen in Munich as he is in Paris in connection with h...

6.11.1820

Redaktørerne ved Dagen

Omnes

Newpaper report on the congress of Troppau.

7.11.1820

Redaktørerne ved Il Messaggere Tirolese

Omnes

Thorvaldsen arrives in Vienna after a stay at Troppau, where he met the Russian and the Austrian ...

9.11.1820

Hermann Ernst Freund

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Freund tells Thorvaldsen about the accident that took place 8.11.1820 in one of Thorvaldsen’s wor...

18.11.1820

Jørgen Koch

Simon Christian Pontoppidan

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

Probably 21.11.1820

Christian Frederik Zeuthen

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Zeuthen asks Thorvaldsen to notify him when he leaves Vienna.

25.11.1820

Franz Ludwig Sartorius

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sartorius writes that he has arranged for Thorvaldsen to inspect the site for the projected monum...

9.12.1820

G. Emiliani

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

9.12.1820

Jørgen Koch

C.F. Hansen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

9.12.1820

Jørgen Koch

Franz Heger

Thorvaldsen’s arrival in Rome is expected any moment. He has just arrived in Verona.

12.12.1820

Christian 8.

Christian 8.

Rides out (in vain) to meet Thorvaldsen, who is on his way to Rome.

16.12.1820

Christian 8.

Christian 8.

Thorvaldsen has arrived in Rome that day and has tea in the evening with Christian (8.) Frederik ...

17.12.1820

Redaktørerne ved Allgemeine Zeitung

Omnes

The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.

20.12.1820

Jørgen Koch

Jonas Collin

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

30.12.1820

Giovanni Battista Sommariva

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Sommariva has heard that Thorvaldsen has returned to Rome after his trip to Denmark and congratul...

6.1.1821

Jørgen Koch

H.N. Clausen

The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.

7.3.1821

Franziska Caspers

Charlotte Thierry

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

25.3.1821

Frederik Julian Christian von Bertouch

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertouch sends warm regards and some news to Thorvaldsen. Among other things, he mentions Clemens...

25.3.1821

Louise Juliane von Bertouch

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertouch sends warm regards to Thorvaldsen.

5.5.1821

Redaktørerne ved Nyeste Skilderie af Kjøbenhavn

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

7.5.1821

Redaktørerne ved Kunst-Blatt

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

8.5.1821

NN

Omnes

The commentary to this document is not available at the moment.

21.2.1826

Stanisław Grabowski, Józef Sierakowski, Walenty Sobolewski

Bertel Thorvaldsen

The committee expresses great concern regarding the equestrian statue of Józef Poniatowski, cf. A...

30.4.1830

Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke

Bertel Thorvaldsen

A.G.D. Moltke recollects the old days in Italy and his impressions from Thorvaldsen’s workshop. H...

March 1840 & 1820

Christine Stampe

Omnes

The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 58th part of 60 in all.

Probably around 1850

Just Mathias Thiele

Just Mathias Thiele

Thiele’s notes on Thorvaldsen’s journey to Rome in August-December 1820.