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Total number of records: 195

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection150
Brotherton Collection149
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive45

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
portraits195
photographs88
photography51
family41
drawing37
painting27
print media20
exhibitions17
letter writing14
works of art13

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom33
Genoa, Italy21
Leeds, United Kingdom11
Florence, Italy8
Turin, Italy5
New York, Usa4
Hull, United Kingdom4
Cleckheaton, United Kingdom4
Berlin (Germany)3
Boston, Usa3

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, Clara1
Gifford, Edward1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17005
From 1800139
From 190051

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899138
Up to 199957

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NOVELLO, Mary Sabilla (née HEHL)

1789-1860

Mary Sabilla Novello's pocket watch, Will, drafts of letters and songs, thoughts on Christianity and the working classes, scrapbooks and commonplace books, family accounts, prose manuscripts, portrait...

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NOVELLO, Edward Petre

1822-1835

Drawings, oil sketches, watercolours, prints and sketchbooks by the artist Edward Petre Novello.

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Prints

1851

Engravings after a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke after a drawing by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Photographs

1842-1913

Photographs and cartes de visite of musical, literary, theatrical and religious figures belonging to the Novello Cowden Clarke family, many of which were presented as gifts from the sitters. Also incl...

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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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Portraits of

1852-1873

Portraits of Valeria Gigliucci. One photographic reproduction of her portrait as a child and one carte de visite dressed in the role of 'Mirth' from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa, ...

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Portraits of

1846-1892

Printed and photographic portraits of Mary Cowden Clarke in the second half of her life.

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Portraits of

c. 1830

Miniature portrait of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello in the form of a glazed pendant.

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Portraits by

1860-1861

Two pencil on paper portraits drawn by Emma Clara Serle.

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Portraits of

1852

Photographic reproduction of a portrait of Mario Gigliucci as a child.

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Photographs of Edward Petre Novello's portrait of Clara Anastasia Gigliucci

1898

Two photographs of Edward Petre Novello's oil on canvas portrait of Clara Anastasia Gigliucci, mounted on cardboard with gilt edges. The original portrait was painted by her brother in 1833-34 when Cl...

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Engraved portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke with Shakespeare

Mar 1851

Two copies of an engraving on paper of Mary Cowden Clarke being crowned with a wreath by Shakespeare while she writes, printed by Bobbett and Edmonds of New York after a drawing by her sister Emma Alo...

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Contempory Portrait Society's Seventh Exhibition

c. 1972

Copy of an undated typewritten press release for the Contempory Portrait Society's Seventh Exhibition, titled 'Portraits and Pictures'; their first in their new permanent home at the Upper Grosvenor G...

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Portraits

c. 1940-1969

88 black and white photographs of portraits and self portraits by Maurice de Sausmarez, generally dating from the 1950s and 1960s, with preparatory and working photographs of the sitters. Includes pho...

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Cartes de visite of the Ackroyd family

c. 1870

Eight cartes de visite of the Ackroyd family of Bradford, with a handwritten note addressed to Mary Cowden Clarke.

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Photographs of Edward Denham

15 Mar 1891

Two photographs of Edward Denham, inscribed on the reverse.

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Photographs of Charles Gounod

c. 1882

Two photographs of the French composer Charles Gounod, inscribed on the front.

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Cartes de visite of the Heaton family

1864-1870

Eleven cartes de visite of the Heaton family of Leeds, including John Deakin Heaton, his wife Fanny Heaton and their daughters Marian Heaton and Helen Frances Heaton.

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Photographs of a sketch and death mask of John Keats

1875-1879

Four posthumous photographs of John Keats belonging to Charles and Mary Cowden Clake, three of the deathbed sketch by the artist Joseph Severn and one of Keats' death mask in Severn's collection, all ...

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Photographs of the Pickering family

c. 1870

Two undated photographs of the Pickering family of Royston, including a portrait of Thomas Pickering and a group portrait of Thomas Pickering, Lucy Pickering and George Rivers, who is pictured with a ...

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Photographs of a drawing of John Trevelyan

1842

Two undated photographs of a drawing of the gentleman, collector and amateur artist Sir John Trevelyan, the original dated 1842.

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Photographs of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke

May 1873

Two cartes de visite and one enlargement of a photographic double portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and his wife Mary Cowden Clarke.

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Photographs of a pencil portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke

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.

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Portraits of

1838-1840

Four printed portraits of Clara Anastasia Novello published between 1838 and 1840, around the time of her opera studies in Milan in 1838 and before her marriage to Giovanni Battista Gigliucci in 1843.

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