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Total number of records: 16

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection16
Brotherton Collection13

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
travel7
letter writing5
music4
diaries4
drawing4
music publishing2
administration1
painting1
print media1
addresses1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Paris, France16
Salzburg, Austria5
Vienna, Austria4
London, United Kingdom2
Munich, Germany2
Nice, France1
Rome, Italy1
Madrid, Spain1
Cannes, France1
Boulogne, France1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Rossini, Gioacchino1
Novello, Clara Anastasia (Afterwards Countess Gigliucci)1
Heller, Stephen1
Gigliucci, Edith (Nee Mozley)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180014
From 20002

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Contracts to sing in Italy, France and Spain

1849-1852

6 contracts for Clara Anastasia Novello to sing in Rome, Florence, Milan, Paris and Madrid between 1849 and 1852, written in Italian.

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Travel

1829

Vincent Novello and his wife Mary Sabilla Novello travelled through Europe in 1829 and both kept diaries from this time. The file contains Vincent Novello's diaries along with associated letters, memo...

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Travel

1829-1850

Original travel diaries and later transcriptions from Mary Sabilla Novello's journey across Europe in the summer of 1829 with her husband Vincent Novello, including details of their visits to Mozart's...

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Cobden, Richard to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

21 Mar 1860

Handwritten letter from Richard Cobden to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, thanking Novello for his note and enclosed letter and asking him to thank his sister Mary Cowden Clarke for sending him an extract fr...

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Sketch after Peter Paul Rubens

c. 1830

Undated pencil, ink and wash sketch by Edward Petre Novello after a detail Peter Paul Rubens' 'The Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseille on 3 November 1600' at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

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Crowther, John to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

9 Nov 1835

Letter from John Crowther to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, dated 9 November 1835. The letter contains costs for engraving and printing in Paris.

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BC MS NCC/10/7/18 Drawing titled 'La curiosité'
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Drawing titled 'La curiosité'

c. 1850

Undated mounted pencil on paper drawing titled 'La curiosité', with a figure revealing a canvas on an easel and a copy of the Venus de Milo on the right, by Emma Aloysia Novello. The drawing appears ...

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Drawing after Annibale Carracci's 'The Silence'

c. 1840

A pencil drawings of the Madonna and infant Jesus alongside the infant John the Baptist, after a painting known as 'The Silence' Annibale Carracci. An incription in ink at the bottom records that the ...

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Travel diary from Paris

10-17 Aug 1829

Three unbound notebooks from Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello's travels in Europe in July and August 1829. The notes record their time in Paris between 10 and 17 August 1829.

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Drawing of a house

Aug 1860

Ink on paper drawing of a house in a landscape, possibly made by Emma Aloysia Novello, with a pencil inscription on the bottom left. Original paper folder is inscribed with details of the setting and ...

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Travel diary from France, Vienna and Germany

11-26 Jul 1829

Part of Vincent Novello's daries of the travels across Europe that he and his wife made in July and August 1829, in a green leather bound notebook with metal clasp. It records their journey from Boulo...

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Memoranda of addesses and autographs

1829

One sheet of memoranda with addresses in Salzburg, Vienna and Paris, with a list on the reverse of people in England whose autographs Novello wished to secure for his album. Originally found as part o...

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