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Total number of records: 962

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives956
Art items3
Objects3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection304
Brotherton Collection169

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing492
art education355
exhibitions96
family68
publishing59
students52
music50
painting47
finance40
music publishing38

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom962
Leeds, United Kingdom43
Genoa, Italy36
Nice, France11
Rome, Italy6
Vienna, Austria6
Horsham, United Kingdom4
Croagnes, France4
Florence, Italy4
West Bretton, United Kingdom4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria15
Novello, Vincent12
Cowden Clarke, Charles11
Hunt, James Henry Leigh10
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred9
Haines, Frederick8
Novello, Joseph Alfred5
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla4
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17004
From 1800285
From 1900668
From 20005

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17993
Up to 1899276
Up to 1999673
Up to latest10

Archive Collection

Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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GIGLIUCCI, Giovanni Battista

1854-1891

Typescript of the autobiography of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and a photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello).

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NOVELLO, Clara Anastasia

1838-1910

Material related to the soprano singer Clara Anastasia Novello, including a gift presented to her; notes, manuscripts and partial typescripts for 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' published in 1910; hon...

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NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla

1838-1904

Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...

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Finance

1938-1969

Financial records and related correspondence for Maurice de Sausmarez, including invoices, paid cheques and counterfoils, bills, bank statements, details of income and expenses, income tax, property, ...

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Posthumous

1969-2015

Material relating to memorial services and lectures, exhibitions and publications. Also includes articles and correspondence concerning Maurice de Sausmarez received by the family after his death on 2...

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Photographs

1854-1906

Fourteen photographs of Clara Anastasia Novello, including photographic reproductions of a painted portrait of her by her brother Edward Petre Novello, cartes de visite, photographs of a plaster bust ...

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Portraits of

1847-1904

Portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as an adult, in print, photography and watercolour. The majority of the material is in the form of photographs and cartes de visite of her in the costumes of charac...

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Hornsey College of Art

1959-1969

Material relating to Maurice de Sausmarez's time at Hornsey College of Art, where he was Head of the Department of Fine Art between 1959 and 1961. Includes stationary, correspondence, exhibition pamph...

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Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting

1962-1969

Material related to Maurice de Sausmarez's position of Principal of the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting from 1962 until his death in 1969, including documents about his employment, field trip...

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Cowden Clarke, Charles to Morris, William

Aug 1868

Handwritten draft of a letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to the designer, poet and artist William Morris, praising Morris's poems 'The Life and Death of Jason' and 'The Earthly Paradise' and mentionin...

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BC MS NCC/20/024 Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, letter (1870), page 1
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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Dickens, Charles

1848-1870

Twenty two handwritten draft letters and copies of letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to Charles Dickens, mentioning shared social occasions, participation in rehearsals and theatrical performances, offe...

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