Thorvaldsen's Works, Transportation
See also: Freight Bills · Transportation of Thorvaldsen's Artworks to Copenhagen 1798 and 1802 · Transportation of Thorvaldsen's Artworks to Copenhagen 1842
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich has received Thorvaldsen’s letter about two crates sent from Rome via Georg Zoëga. The cra...
Johan Hartvig Ernst von Berger
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Berger reports that he is willing to transport Thorvaldsen’s four crates bound for Copenhagen / t...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich has received Thorvaldsen’s letters, but his two crates have not yet arrived at Leghorn. Ul...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
First draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen tells Abildgaard how devastated he was when he received the ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks Abildgaard’s permission to...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Nicolai Abildgaard
Second draft of a letter: Thorvaldsen informs Abildgaard that he has been seriously ill. He asks ...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart reports that Thorvaldsen’s portrait busts of himself and Jacqueline Schubart, A718...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart writes that The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and the portrait busts of himse...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart forwards the freight bill concerning The Dance of the Muses on Helicon, cf. A705, and th...
Patrick Moir
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Moir informs Thorvaldsen on behalf of Thomas Hope that the fourth and last payment for Jason with...
Herman Schubart
Georg Zoëga
Schubart confers with Zoëga on smuggling a collection of antique coins from Rome to Leghorn on be...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova is sure that Thorvaldsen has kept his promise and finished the commissioned w...
Herman Schubart
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schubart is pleased that Thorvaldsen has received commissions from Denmark. He is going to ask Ch...
Charlotte Schimmelmann
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Schimmelmann is happy that the baptismal font, cf. A555,1, A555,2, A555,3, A555,4 is finished. Sh...
Irina Vorontsova
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Countess Vorontsova has written to Thorvaldsen several times without receiving an answer, so she ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Poul Scheel
Thorvaldsen responds to Poul Scheel’s cancellation of the commission for the bust of the Doctor S...
Elisa von der Recke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa von der Recke asks to have the crate with two of the four busts she has commissioned sent t...
Poul Scheel
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Scheel has heard from Friederike Brun that the bust he has commissioned has been completed. Since...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hans West
Thorvaldsen asks West to help Høyer in a matter concerning the Academy of Fine Arts. He also writ...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Theodor von der Ropp
Thorvaldsen thanks Ropp for the payment of his works. Regarding Jupiter Otricoli, he thinks that ...
Giovanni Battista Bassi
Luigi Basiletti
Bassi has visited Thorvaldsen and seen the group Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, cf. A44, which ha...
Luigi Basiletti
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Basiletti writes to Thorvaldsen about the sculpture Ganimede with Jupiter’s Eagle, cf. “A44...
Peder Malling
Kunstakademiet, København
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Luigi Basiletti
Paolo Tosio
Basiletti tells Tosio that he has received the sculpture Ganymede with Jupiter’s Eagle, cf. A44. ...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to complete and send three commissioned marble reliefs as soon as possi...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon asks Thorvaldsen to buy some antique objects for his friend Alexander Baillie and to res...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon writes that he, Alexander Baillie, and his brother Hans Carl Knudtzon had a pleasant jou...
Mary Bentinck
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bentinck asks Thorvaldsen to pack and deliver the marble portrait busts of Edward Pellew and Will...
Edward Pellew
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pellew requests that his portrait bust in marble, cf. Edward Pellew, A260, be sent immediately to...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich asks when the works commissioned by Alexander Baillie and Jørgen Knudtzon will be ready fo...
Hans Carl Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reminisces about his journey to Rome and hopes to see Thorvaldsen the following year dur...
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bertrand-Favre writes to Thorvaldsen about the statue Ganymede Filling the Cup, cf. A43, which h...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen has to postpone his trip to Denmark because he has to finish John Russell’s com...
John Cam Hobhouse
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hobhouse has asked the banking firm of Schultheiss to send a crate to Leghorn. They have been tol...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen adds three conditions for accepting the execution of the equestrian statue of Józef P...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stanisław Mokronowski
Thorvaldsen adds three conditions for accepting the execution of the equestrian statue of Józef P...
Caroline von Humboldt
Wilhelm von Humboldt
During transportation to Berlin, the bust of Wilhelm von Humboldt has been damaged. Caroline von ...
C.W. Eckersberg
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Eckersberg takes advantage of the departure of the Nymph from Copenhagen to send greetings to Tho...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell has heard that two reliefs, which he has commissioned from Thorvaldsen, Briseis and Achil...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński sends part of the payment for Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A854, expressing his hope ...
Vincenz Rüttimann
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Thorvaldsen has not yet made the promised draft of the monument to the fallen Swiss Guards, cf. D...
John Russell
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Russell refers to his letter of 1.5.1818 regarding the shipment of the two reliefs that he has co...
Francesco Barberini
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Barberini has heard that the marble version of Monument to over Anna Maria Porro Serbelloni, cf. ...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński thanks Thorvaldsen for the drawing of Ganymede and hopes to receive the statue soon, cf...
Edward Everett
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Everett has commissioned some copies of the bust of Lord Byron without specifying the material. A...
Joh. Carl Löwe
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Löwe informs Thorvaldsen that he and Gerhard Stub will be in charge of the transportation of the ...
Atanazy Raczyński
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Raczyński has spoken to Joh. Carl Löwe about the transportation from Rome to Poznań of the statu...
Gerhard Stub
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Stub asks Thorvaldsen to let him know if Atanazy Raczyński’s statue of Ganymede, cf. A41, is fini...
Edward Everett
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Everett asks if Thorvaldsen can deliver the six plaster copies of the bust of Lord Byron as there...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Atanazy Raczyński
Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot send Ganymede Offering the Cup, cf. A41, to Raczyński as the s...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller regrets that work on the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is so slow and...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller writes that the model for Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, is much admired. He is ...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller expresses a hope that, in spite of the price, an accomplished Italian sculptor will be cho...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that Nicolaus Esterházy’s commission has to be sent off. Esterházy’s...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller complains that it is difficult to get Thorvaldsen to complete his work on the model for Dy...
Luigi Chiaveri
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Chiaveri reminds Thorvaldsen that he has promised to deliver a bust, probably of Nicolaus Esterhá...
Caroline von Humboldt
Christian Daniel Rauch
Rauch can get the latest news about Thorvaldsen from Karl Wilhelm Wach. Frances Mackenzie has bro...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that the small model for the monument to the Swiss guards in Lucerne, cf. Dying Li...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller reports that both models of the monument Dying Lion (The Lucerne Lion), cf. A119, have be...
Heinrich Keller
Karl Pfyffer von Altishofen
Keller gives instructions concerning measurements and special circumstances in connection with th...
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On Byron’s behalf, Zambelli thanks Thorvaldsen for having finished the bust and asks him to send ...
Lega Zambelli
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zambelli informs Thorvaldsen that Byron will pay all freight charges for the shipment of his bust...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Auguste-Jean-Marie Carbonneaux
Thorvaldsen is pleased that Carbonneaux has been chosen to cast the equestrian statue of Józef Po...
Giovanni Battista Sommariva
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Sommariva reminds Thorvaldsen to send the marble busts of Christian (8.) Frederik and Caroline Am...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Alexander 1.
A note that two busts of the Tsar have been shipped from Rome. Thorvaldsen swears that each strok...
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...
E.H. Fleischer
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Gerhard Stub
Hermann Ernst Freund
Gerhard Stub replies to Freund’s letter of 3.11.1823. He informs him that the relief Caritas, cf....
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Payment of the biannual interest of 225 scudi on the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Fre...
Franz Erwein von Schönborn
De Chapeaurouge
Schönborn has been informed that a marble statue is ready to be sent to him. He assumes that it i...
Guillaume Bertrand-Favre
Giuseppe Basseggio
Bertrand-Favre asks the art dealer Basseggio to send a cast of Thorvaldsen’s bas-relief The...
Ernst Schimmelmann, Udenrigsdepartementet, København
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik VI has ordered the brig St. Croix to go to the Mediterranean on its way back from the Da...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is put in charge of the packing of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which are to be ...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Hermann Ernst Freund
Note regarding Francisco Lami and the ship L’Anime del Purgatorio.
Tekla Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tekla Potocka has written to Thorvaldsen from Poland but has not heard from him. She asks if he h...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Completed works of art for Christiansborg Palace are to be sent to Leghorn, from where the brig ...
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian (8.) Frederik sends a list of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks that he wants to be...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which Christian (8.) Frederik wants to be sent to D...
Johan Frederik Bardenfleth
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A greeting from the Danish West Indies, where Governor Bardenfleth (worn out by official duties) ...
Hermann Ernst Freund, Bertel Thorvaldsen
Frederik 6.
Extra bill for water-resistant burlap to cover the marbles so that they could be placed on the de...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The crates with Thorvaldsen’s artworks have been stored in a warehouse at Leghorn, where th...
Martinus Christian de Klauman
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Pirates in the waters of the Danish West Indies have been defeated, but they have caused the dela...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
List of those of Thorvaldsen’s artworks which were put on board the brig St. Croix in order...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
In Copenhagen, news has been received that the brig St. Croix is now underway with Thorvaldsen...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska writes from Paris, where she is staying at the moment because her English audience ar...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
An inquiry about Thorvaldsen’s sculptural decorations for the Church of Our Lady and Christ...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, is looking forward to receiving ...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Request for deferred payment of the loan of 9000 scudi, which Christian (8.) Frederik took from T...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827. Extr...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen
One of three draft letters, in Thorvaldsen’s own hand, of a fourth draft letter dated 7.2.1...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Thorvaldsen lists the works which will be ready to be sent to Denmark in the spring of 1827 and c...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Concerning the way in which Thorvaldsen’s loan to Christian (8.) Frederik is to be paid bac...
Johan Gunder Adler
Hermann Ernst Freund
Freund is informed that the frigate which was to transport several of Thorvaldsen’s works t...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, Thorvaldsen is asked by the Building Commission for the Chur...
Maria Szymanowska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Szymanowska, who is now living in Saint Petersburg in order to be able to support her family, sen...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen is very disappointed about the postponement of the shipment to Denmark of Thorvaldsen...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In consequence of a royal ordinance, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace ask Thorva...
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The Building Commission for the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen seize the opportunity to have th...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich lists the works of art for the Church of Our Lady and Christiansborg Palace which the merc...
Johan Gunder Adler, Hermann Ernst Freund
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Adler writes to the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace, quoting a letter dated 30.6.18...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
C.F. Hansen has read a letter from Hermann Ernst Freund concerning the forthcoming transportation...
Anna Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Potocka wants to know what Thorvaldsen is working on at the moment, and what progress is being ma...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Report on the estimated arrival of the merchant ship Therese at Leghorn.
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The merchant ship Therese, which has been in Tunesia, has arrived at Leghorn and is now in quaran...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The ship owner L.N. Hvidt has informed the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace that the...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Ulrich confirms receipt of Thorvaldsen’s message that 64 crates with works of art are on their wa...
Hermann Ernst Freund
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The crates with Thorvaldsens art works has arrived in Leghorn. They have been reloaded on a Danis...
Redaktørerne ved Kjøbenhavnsposten
Omnes
Concerning the lading at Leghorn of Thorvaldsen’s artworks for the Academy of Fine Arts and...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Specification of Thorvaldsen’s expenses for storage, crates, and packing in connection with...
Francesco de Sanctis
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Duty to be paid for three (or four) crates with works of art and books, which were sent by ship f...
Anna Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Anna Potocka mentions that she wrote to Thorvaldsen from Vienna five months ago but received no a...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Kirkebygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commission thanks Thorvaldsen for Christ, cf. A82, and the twelve apostles for the Church of ...
Johan Gunder Adler
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Adler is surprised that Thorvaldsen has not yet claimed the money which Christian (8.) Frederik h...
Stanisław Grabowski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Grabowski reports that the plaster model of Józef Poniatowski, A123, has reached Danzig (Gdańsk) ...
Jakub Tatarkiewicz
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Tatarkiewicz writes that there have been problems with the casting of Nicolaus Copernicus after t...
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Humboldt writes that his wife, Caroline, died in March. She wanted to be buried in the garden of ...
Jørgen Knudtzon
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Knudtzon reports that Thorvaldsen’s statues of Venus, A853, Ganymede Offering the Cup, A85...
Leo von Klenze
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Alexander Murray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Murray has asked Thorvaldsen to send the bust of Napoleon, cf. A867, together with the one of Lor...
Alexander Murray
Bertel Thorvaldsen
W.H. Gibbs writes that Murray has been to see Thorvaldsen, but he was not there. The payment for ...
Adam Gottlob Detlef Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
A.G.D. Moltke recollects the old days in Italy and his impressions from Thorvaldsen’s workshop. H...
Magnus Theodor Moltke
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Magnus Moltke writes that his father, A.G.D. Moltke, has given him his bust, A212, and Angelika K...
J.C. Dahl
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Thorvaldsen’s bust of Dahl, A229, has finally arrived in Dresden. Dahl writes that a crate with t...
Maria Fjodorovna Barjatinskaja
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Admiralitets- og Commissariats Collegiet
In connection with Thorvaldsen’s information about the completion of several works, the Building ...
Jan Radziwonski
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Dr. Jan Radziwonski forwards a letter from Zofia Potocka and reminds Thorvaldsen that Józefina Ma...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Information that a Danish naval vessel will call at Leghorn in July 1833 in order to bring severa...
Slotsbygningskommissionen
J.C. Ulrich
The corvette Galathea under the command of Johan Wilhelm Cornelius Krieger left Copenhagen 1.5.18...
J.C. Ulrich
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At the beginning of this month, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace sent off the co...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Hansen is pleased the Thorvaldsen is satisfied with his appointment as director of the Academy of...
Pietro Antonio Bienaimé
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bienaimé is at Carrara, where the marble statue of Crist, cf. A82, has been ready for shipment to...
Elisa Paulsen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Elisa is at Leghorn with her husband, Fritz Paulsen, and his employer, Princess Charlotte Frederi...
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List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
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List of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corvette Galathea in ...
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First part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corve...
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Second part of a list of the works by Thorvaldsen that are to be sent to Copenhagen with the corv...
C.F. Hansen
Bertel Thorvaldsen
At Thorvaldsen’s request, the Building Commission for Christiansborg Palace and the Univers...
Ludvig Bødtcher
Bertel Thorvaldsen
In the company of Captain Louis de Coninck, Ludvig Bødtcher is on his way to Leghorn, from where ...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
On behalf of Alfred Potocki and Zofia Potocka, Czartoryska wants to know which month Thorvaldsen ...
Madame Besson
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Madame Besson asks Thorvaldsen to send a couple of his men with a portrait of Napoleon, cf. A909,...
Ludvig Bødtcher
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Bødtcher worries that Thorvaldsen has not received his latest letter, sent through the painter Al...
Zofia Potocka
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Zofia Potocka thanks Thorvaldsen for his letter informing her that the monument is ready to be se...
Dorota Barbara Czartoryska
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Czartoryska writes about the transport of the funerary monument to Artur Potocki. She wants infor...
Alexander Grant
Bertel Thorvaldsen
With the bearer of the letter, Grant sends Thorvaldsen 100 scudi to be deducted from Charles Bowy...
Redaktørerne ved Aarhus Stiftstidende
Omnes
Aarhus Stiftstidende writes that Thorvaldsen has accepted the offer of having himself and his wor...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
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Thorvaldsen regrets that he cannot travel to Denmark after all. He has been robbed during the pac...
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Omnes
Thorvaldsen’s works have arrived at Leghorn and are ready for shipment to Denmark.
Johan Bravo
Helena Ponińska
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Information about the expected arrival at Leghorn of the frigate Thetis and about the sepulchral ...
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
A short summary of a letter to Thorvaldsen with information about the frigate Thetis and the sepu...
Between 13.1.1842 and 1.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Third draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842.
After 1.2.1842, before 15.2.1842
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Sixth draft of the letter dated 15.2.1842. The draft is considerably longer than the final letter.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Christian 8.
Thorvaldsen confirms receipt of the letter saying that a frigate will be sent to Italy in order t...
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Helena Ponińska
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Bertel Thorvaldsen
Helena Ponińska
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Carlo Torlonia
Bertel Thorvaldsen
The commentary for this letter is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.
Christian 8.
Christian 8.
The commentary for this document is not available at the moment.