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Total number of records: 1351

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1345
Art items3
Objects3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1047
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection304
Brotherton Collection169

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing605
art education403
exhibitions302
academies and institutes108
publishing104
painting85
family72
interest groups64
students59
music59

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom1351
Leeds, United Kingdom52
Genoa, Italy36
Nice, France11
Croagnes, France8
Vienna, Austria6
Horsham, United Kingdom6
Rome, Italy6
Paris, France5
Bristol, 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 1800286
From 19001053
From 20008

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17993
Up to 1899277
Up to 19991058
Up to latest13

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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Royal Academy of Arts

1964-1969

Material related to Maurice de Sausmarez's involvement in the Royal Academy of Arts, to which he was elected as an Associate in 1964 (having first been nominated in 1951). The series includes document...

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Arnold Hauser notes

c. 1950-1960

Handwritten and typewritten research notes, annotated typescripts and press cuttings in English, German and French by the sociologist and art historian Arnold Hauser, with whom Maurice de Sausmarez wo...

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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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Social events

1964-1969

Printed pamphlets for the Royal Academy of Arts Annual Dinner attended by Maurice de Sausmarez from 1964 to 1969 and handwritten notes for an after dinner speech by de Sausmarez.

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Maurice de Sausmarez and his circle

c. 1930-1969

Black and white photographs and photographic negatives of Maurice de Sausmarez and his circle of family, friends and collaborators. One album with 54 photographs and 18 loose photographs.The album dat...

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Students and student work

c. 1947-1968

36 black and white and colour photographs and 8 negatives featuring art students and their work, including a photograph of two students paintings at Leeds College of Art, undated examples of Basic Des...

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Kenneth Leighton quartet

1964-1966

Original Kenneth Leighton notation manuscript of 'Variations for String Quartet' commissioned by Maurice de Sausmarez in memory of his mother Jessie Rose de Sausmarez in 1964, with a printed score pub...

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