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NOVELLO, Edward Petre
1822-1835
Drawings, oil sketches, watercolours, prints and sketchbooks by the artist Edward Petre Novello.
Drawings
c. 1830
Pencil, ink and watercolour sketches by Edward Petre Novello, including portraits of members of the Novello family, illustrations for his sister Mary Cowden Clarke's publications, copies after existin...
Paintings
c. 1830
Two undated oil paintings, one portrait of Emma Aloysia Novello by (John) Henry Sass and one untitled portrait after James Northcote by Emma Aloysia Novello.
Watercolours
c. 1850
Watercolours and some drawings on paper by Emma Aloysia Novello, the majority of which are untitled and undated. They include portraits, landscapes, street and rural scenes, architectural studies, bib...
Scrapbooks
1846-1897
The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...
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 ...
Photographs
c. 1850
Photographic reproductions of portraits of Novello family members by Edward Petre Novello, including a self portrait, a portrait of his father Vincent Novello, his sister Clara Anastasia Novello and a...
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...
Societies
1831-1840
One bound volume and one portrait associated with 'The Tortoise Club', formed by Edward Petre Novello and his brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello in 1831. Along with their friends, they went on excusions ...
Album with portraits, sketches and poems
1863-1873
An album containing portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics. The cover is embossed with a decoartive border and 'Album' in gilt lettering. A loose sheet written in blue ink records that the album was...
The Tortoise Club
1831-1833
A bound volume relating to 'The Tortoise Club' formed by Edward Petre Novello and his brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello and three of their friends. The volume contains mock regularions for the unofficia...
untitled watercolour [rural building with figure]
c. 1850
Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of a rural scene with a building on the left and small figure next to a wheelbarrow on the right, by Emma Aloysia Novello.
Oil sketch of St John
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch of St John by Edward Petre Novello, with a cutting from the Dial dated 1 October 1894 used as a folder.
Frontispiece to 'The First Love'
c. 1830
Undated watercolour by Edward Petre Novello for the frontispiece to his sister Mary Cowden Clarke's story 'The First Love'.
Sketch for a theatre curtain
c. 1830
Undated pencil and ink sketch of a standing figure with raised proper left hand by Edward Petre Novello, with an inscription in a later hand noting that is was for the drop curtain at the Adelphi Thea...
Sketch of horses
c. 1830
Undated pencil sketch of two horses heads by Edward Petre Novello, with an inscription at the bottom in a later hand noting that the sketch was for a painting.
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.
Watercolour sketch of an oak tree
c. 1836
Undated pencil and watercolour sketch of an oak tree on a hill in Hastings with an unfinished figure at the base by Edward Petre Novello, with an inscription at the bottom in a later hand recording th...
Watercolour sketch of a mythological scene
c. 1830
Undated watercolour sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of what appears to be a mythological scene with two reclining adult figures, one with a beard and one partially nude, with an infant cupid aiming an...
Photograph of a self portrait of Edward Petre Novello
c. 1850
Undated photograph of a self portrait by Edward Petre Novello as a teenager, with an inscription on the reverse in a later hand.
Proof engraving of Vincent Novello
c. 1840
Proof engraving on paper of a portrait of Vincent Novello, engraved by the Irish artist William Humphrys after an original painting by Edward Petre Novello, now in the collection of the National Portr...
Sketch of a figure with curled hair
c. 1830
Undated pencil sketch of a figure with curled hair by Edward Petre Novello, with a pencil inscription in a later hand at the bottom right, noting that it was a study from life from Bonington.
Portrait of Elizabeth Hehl after Thomas Charles Wageman
c. 1830
Undated pencil portrait of Elizabeth Hehl by her maternal grandson Edward Petre Novello, after Thomas Charles Wageman. She is depicted from the chest up, wearing a bonnet. Includes two sheets of handw...
Watercolour sketch of a self-portrait
c. 1827
Watercolour and pencil sketch of a self-portrait by Edward Petre Novello, pictured from the shoulders up wearing a white shirt and dark blue waistcoat. Inscriptions in pencil at the bottom suggest tha...