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Total number of records: 1670

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1579
Art items58
Objects33

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1670
Brotherton Collection1212

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing538
family282
drawing258
poetry196
portraits174
painting147
photographs135
music133
gift giving129
illustration103

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom300
Genoa, Italy294
Nice, France33
Rome, Italy24
Florence, Italy22
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Vienna, Austria21
Paris, France20
Manchester, United Kingdom12
Turin, Italy11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria66
Cowden Clarke, Charles34
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Novello, Vincent27
Novello, Clara Anastasia20
Haines, Frederick18
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla18
Hunt, James Henry Leigh16
Novello, Joseph Alfred16
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden14

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 18001602
From 190062
From 20006

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18991567
Up to 1999103

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NOVELLO, Emma Aloysia

1814-1902

Drawings, paintings and prints by the artist Emma Aloysia Novello, alongside material related to her family, financial and medical histories.

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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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SERLE, Emma Clara

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 ...

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GIGLIUCCI, Giovanni

1852-1866

Sonnet titled ‘Sonnifero!’ by Giovanni Gigliucci and a photographic reproduction of a portrait of him as a child.

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GIGLIUCCI, Porzia

1852-1873

A poem transcribed by Porzia Gigliucci and photographic portraits of her as a child and later as an adult, dressed as Thalia from a theatrical production at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy.

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GIGLIUCCI, Mario

1852

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

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GIGLIUCCI, Valeria

1852-1893

Poems transcribed by Valeria Gigliucci for her future sister-in-law Edith Margaret Mozley and her aunt Mary Cowden Clarke. Photographic portraits of Valeria Gigliucci as a child and later as an adult ...

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NOVELLO, Vincent

1808-1964

Five boxes containing jewellery, legal documents, manuscript music, newspaper cuttings, notebooks, photographs and the travel diaries from Vincent Novello's journey across Europe with his wife Mary Sa...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Mary Victoria (née NOVELLO)

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, ...

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COWDEN CLARKE, Charles

1803-1879

Papers and ephemera relating to the writer and lecturer Charles Cowden Clarke (1787-1877), including examples of his jewellery and stationary, the notes he made for public lectures, painted and photog...

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