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Total number of records: 292

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Archives243
Books and printed items44
Art items5

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Brotherton Collection261
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection248
English Literature2

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drawing292
illustration88
family50
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portraits41
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sculpture17
gift giving17
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Genoa, Italy9
London, United Kingdom7
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Nice, France4
Paris, France4
Bruges, Belgium4
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Great Britain2
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Chiswick Press13
Ruskin, John (1819-1900)13
Fine Art Society13
Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-185113
Kingsley, W9
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)7
Homer2
Lodge, John2
Gandee, B F2
Roscoe, William2

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Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/14
1860-1861
Two pencil on paper portraits drawn by Emma Clara Serle, who was the eldest surviving daughter of Cecilia Serle (née Novello) and Thomas James Serle and the granddaughter of Vincent Novello. She was ...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/4
1825-1898
Two silk carte de visite albums, drawings of plants from Villa Novello in Genoa, gifts of glazed prints and seaweeds, two brooches, Mary Cowden Clarke's Will and Probate details, notes and memoranda, ...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/9
1822-1835
Drawings, oil sketches, watercolours, prints and sketchbooks by the artist Edward Petre Novello.
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/20/011
1848-1851
Handwritten letters and ink sketches from Alexander Christie to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke.
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/9/1
c. 1830
Pencil, ink and watercolour sketches by Edward Petre Novello, including portraits of members of the Novello family, illustrations for his sister Mary Cowden Clarke's publications, copies after existin...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/10/1
c. 1831
Autograph album belonging to Emma Aloysia Novello, with contributions from her mother Mary Sabilla Novello, Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke and others.
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/14/1
1860-1861
Two pencil on paper portraits drawn by Emma Clara Serle.
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/10/2
1831-1853
Pencil drawings and sketches by Emma Aloysia Novello, the majority of which are after the antique and most likely copied from plaster casts as part of her artistic training. It is possible that they d...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/10/7
c. 1850
Watercolours and some drawings on paper by Emma Aloysia Novello, the majority of which are untitled and undated. They include portraits, landscapes, street and rural scenes, architectural studies, bib...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/13/10
1846-1897
The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/19/11/13
26 Mar 1876
Three mounted photographs of a sketch of Enfield School by Mario Gigliucci, drawn for his uncle Charles Cowden Clarke. Clarke was born and taught at the school, where he met John Keats.
Archive File:
BC MS NCC/19/11/36
1862
Two photographs of a pencil portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke in profile by Mary's sister Emma Aloysia Novello, drawn in Genoa, Italy in 1862. One is mounted on card.