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Total number of records: 32

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Books and printed items21
Archives9
Art items2

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Brotherton Collection12
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection7
Medieval Manuscripts4

Top 10: Subject

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animals32
painting5
cells4
natural history4
saints4
birds4
plants4
landscape4
drawing3
chapbooks, english3

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Rome, Italy1
Wales1
Went River (England)1
Pontefract (England)1
Osgoldcross (England)1
France1
Ireland1
London, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Smith, Henry4
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob (1804-1881)4
Schleiden, Matthias Jacob4
Smith, Henry (1823-1894)4
Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882)4
Sydenham Society4
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)3
Owen, Sir Richard (1804-1892)2
Irving, Washington (1783-1859)2
Hunter, John (1728-1793)2

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Archive File

Oil sketches

c. 1830

Undated oil sketches on woodpulp board and canvas by Edward Petre Novello. They are likely to have been painted in around 1830, following his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts and before his early ...

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Sketchbooks

1822-1835

Ten sketchbooks belonging to Edward Petre Novello, dating from his time as a student at Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury and the Royal Academy of Arts and the period afterwards, including travels to Franc...

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Engravings of lions, tigers, panthers, leopards, dogs, etc : chiefly after the designs of Sir Edwin Landseer

Landseer, Thomas (1795-1880); Landseer, Sir Edwin Henry (1802-1873)

1853

"From the original plates published between 1823 and 1828".

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A short account of the history of Pontefract and chief places of interest in the surrounding neigbourhood : with some observations on the geological features of the district; specially prepared for the delegates attending the 44th Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes: At Pontefract, on June 22nd and 23rd, 1881

Holmes, Richard (1826-1900); Tew, Thomas William (1828-); Tew, Thomas William (1828-); Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes. Meeting

1881

1-18 p, 2nd count: Paper read before the delegates of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, 23rd June, 1881, by Thomas William Tew; the paper is on Osgoldcross, in particular Wentdale, and som...

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Sketch of a tree and deer

c. 1830

Undated pencil sketch of a tree with two deer by Edward Petre Novello.

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untitled watercolour [country house with deer]

c. 1850

Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of a country house with deer and a body of water in the foreground, by Emma Aloysia Novello.

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A history of the earth and animated nature : With an introductory view of the animal kingdom (v.1)

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774); Irving, Washington (1783-1859); Cuvier, Georges baron (1769-1832)

[1852?]

Added t.p., engraved.

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A history of the earth and animated nature : With an introductory view of the animal kingdom (v.2)

Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774); Irving, Washington (1783-1859); Cuvier, Georges baron (1769-1832)

[1852?]

Added t.p., engraved.

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Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants

Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882); Smith, Henry (1823-1894); Schleiden, Matthias Jacob (1804-1881); Sydenham Society

1847

"Contributions to phytogenesis, translated from the German of Dr. M.J. Schleiden": p. [229]-268.

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Microscopical researches into the accordance in the structure and growth of animals and plants

Schwann, Theodor (1810-1882); Smith, Henry (1823-1894); Schleiden, Matthias Jacob (1804-1881); Sydenham Society

1847

"Contributions to phytogenesis, translated from the German of Dr. M.J. Schleiden": p. [229]-268.

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untitled oil sketch [soldiers with horses and dogs]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a rural lanscape with six figures, some of whom appear to be soldiers and three of whom are mounted on horses. One smaller figure on the left holds the c...

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untitled oil sketch [two figures and a horse]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a woodland scene with two figures and a brown horse. The standing figure is wearing a suit of armour with a red cape and plumed helmet, while the seated ...

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