Thorvaldsen's Unwillingness to Write
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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...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Copy of Peder Pavels’ diary and drafts of Thorvaldsen’s diary from Malta 1796-97.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s diary from his sojourn in Malta, Palermo and Naples.
Gotskalk Thorvaldsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thanking his son for his letter, Thorvaldsen’s father writes about the hard winter, his work, and...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Jørgen West
Thorvaldsen complains that he has not received any letter for a long time.
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley is delighted that Thomas Hope’s commission for Jason with the golden fleece, A52, has pro...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports on his efforts to obtain commissions for Thorvaldsen from Denmark. Through her h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen thanks Schubart and his sister Charlotte Schimmelmann for the efforts they are making...
Maria Zoëga
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Maria Zoëga is disappointed that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen and hopes that her letter wil...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden
In a few Italian phrases Thorvaldsen tries to apologize for not having written to Anna Maria Uhd...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having written before since he has been busy travelling. He has ar...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Maria Uhden
Thorvaldsen writes to Anna Maria Uhden. The letter has been damaged, but its content seems clear ...
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
Herman Schubart
Stanley thanks Schubart for recommending him to people in Denmark. He feels almost cured after tw...
C.F.F. Stanley
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanley thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter and asks him to thank Christian Hornbech for the letter...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart wants to know if Thorvaldsen will accept the commission of Baptismal Font, cf. A555,1. B...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Schubart’s letter. He thanks him for the comm...
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...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lund has heard that Thorvaldsen is working on the relief The Baptism of Christ, possibly A736, du...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart hopes that Thorvaldsen has arrived safely in Rome. He mentions the mortally ill Caspar B...
Herman Schubart
C.F.F. Stanley
Schubart apologizes for not having written for a long time. Stanley is welcome to send him his le...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for not having been in contact with regard to the commission for a monumen...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. He has put off sending casts...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Draft: Thorvaldsen is unable to come to Montenero because of too much work. The Dance of the Muse...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart thanks Thorvaldsen for his birthday present, the drawing Mary with Jesus and John. He h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Herman Schubart
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his long silence, blaming his poor ability to write letters. He has so...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
Thorvaldsen asks West to help Høyer in a matter concerning the Academy of Fine Arts. He also writ...
Hans West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West writes about political and economic conditions in Denmark and the rest of Europe. He describ...
Hans West
Bertel Thorvaldsen
West writes in an attempt to stop the shipment of the works he has commissioned from Thorvaldsen,...
Wilhelm von Huth
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Huth writes that it has been good for him to be in Naples, and that he is comfortable with Marian...
J.L. Lund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An attempt to persuade Thorvaldsen to visit Denmark. Information about life at home and greetings...
Henrik Vilhelm Lundbye
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Lundbye writes to Thorvaldsen from Leghorn. He brings news about Danish friends there and regrets...
Peder Malling
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
David Ferdinand Koreff
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Koreff teases Thorvaldsen for not having written or sent the drawings he had promised. He asks th...
Pietro Benvenuti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Benvenuti writes that Thorvaldsen’s portrait bust of him has been cast in plaster, and that the s...
Jelizaveta Aleksejevna Osterman-Tolstaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Osterman-Tolstaja describes a monument that she wants to erect to her beloved brother, and that s...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted advises Thorvaldsen to return to Denmark, at least for a year. He encloses letters for ...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he has returned to Norway. He looks forward to seeing Thorvaldsen in Copenha...
P.O. Brøndsted
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Brøndsted wonders why he has had no answer to the commission for a monument transmitted in his la...
Catharina di Branciforte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Princess regrets that she has not heard from Thorvaldsen since her departure from Rome. She a...
Thomson Bonar
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonar sends a death mask of his son, Thomson Henry Bonar, and asks Thorvaldsen to execute a portr...
Christina Alexandra Egypta Bonaparte
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bonaparte blames Thorvaldsen for not having written to her and reminds him of the promises of fri...
Peder Horrebow Haste
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Haste regrets that he is unable to write a poem to express his love for Thorvaldsen, the man. He ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski has not had news from Thorvaldsen for a long time though he has heard from Stanisław ...
Stanisław Mokronowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Mokronowski refers to his letter of February 3rd with an enclosure concerning the funerary monume...
Johann Martin von Wagner
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
Wagner regrets his late answer regarding the completion of the Bacchus statue left by the late Ru...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen relates news of the busts of Frederik 6., A859, Marie Sophie Frederikke, A192, Vilhel...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Draft letter dated 29.4.1823. Thorvaldsen relates news of the busts of Frederik 6., A859, Marie S...
Peder Horrebow Haste, J.C. Riise
Omnes
Haste sends additions and corrections to Nicolay Fürst’s biography of Thorvaldsen. Haste writes a...
Hans Henrik Gunnerus
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Gunnerus informs Thorvaldsen that he has handed over his deed of gift of 24.5.1822 and the owners...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Conrad Rantzau
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Rantzau writes from Nice, where he is staying in his capacity of travelling companion to Prince F...
Antagelig 22.7.1826 eller 22.7.1827
Tekla Potocka
Anna Potocka
Tekla Potocka asks her cousin Anna Potocka for help concerning the funerary monument to her husba...
N.C.L. Abrahams
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Abrahams sends a report from Paris. He has met the bronze caster Louis-Claude-Ferdinand Soyer, wh...
Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The bronze caster writes that an accident nearly cost him his life, and that it has taken him fiv...
Peder Horrebow Haste
Just Mathias Thiele
Haste replies to a letter from Thiele requesting information about Thorvaldsen. He states that hi...
Fritz Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Paulsen declares his love of Elisa to Thorvaldsen. He has almost recovered from his jaundice and ...
Philipp Joseph von Rehfues
Dominique Valentini
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Teresa Lubomirska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Teresa Lubomirska tells Thorvaldsen that Zofia Potocka has written to her several times to ask Th...
Ranieri Bartolini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bartolini has recommended Thorvaldsen as honorary member of the Accademia Aretina di Scienze, Let...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Conrad Rantzau
Thorvaldsen apologizes for his late answer to Rantzau’s latest letter and mentions the many commi...
Elisa Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa Paulsen asks Thorvaldsen to look after Mrs. Fischer and Miss Harboe, who are coming to Rome...
Hans Puggaard
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen. He reminds him to send the marble relief The Gra...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 5th part of 60 in all.
Jonas Collin
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Marie Lehmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Marie Puggaard is impatient for news from Thorvaldsen and hopes that he will remain in Rome until...
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 48th part of 60 in all.
Christine Stampe
Omnes
The script of Christine Stampe’s memoirs on Thorvaldsen. This is the 53th part of 60 in all.
Juliane Marie Abildgaard
Just Mathias Thiele
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.