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Total number of records: 1601

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1503
Art items60
Objects38

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1601
Brotherton Collection1161

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing508
family261
drawing248
poetry192
portraits171
painting144
photographs122
gift giving119
music117
illustration96

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom279
Genoa, Italy277
Nice, France33
Beckenham, United Kingdom21
Rome, Italy21
Florence, Italy19
Vienna, Austria18
Paris, France17
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 Anastasia19
Haines, Frederick18
Novello, Joseph Alfred16
Hunt, James Henry Leigh16
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla14
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden14

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From 170034
From 18001561
From 20006

Count of Latest date

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Up to 179910
Up to 18991591
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/11
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).
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/14
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 ...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/15
1852-1866
Sonnet titled ‘Sonnifero!’ by Giovanni Gigliucci and a photographic reproduction of a portrait of him as a child.
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/16
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.
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/17
1852
Photographic reproduction of a portrait of Mario Gigliucci as a child.
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/18
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 ...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/3
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...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/4
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, ...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/5
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...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/6
1843-1877
Two poems by Thomas James Serle, the husband of Cecilia Novello.
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/7
1824-1896
Financial documents relating to Novello & Co. and (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investments in shipping and railways, business contracts, designs for the 'Novello Skimmer' sculling boat, sketches and desi...
Archive Series:
BC MS NCC/8
1857-1890
Copies of the baptism certificates for two of Cecilia Serle's daughters, an income tax certificate and copies of Cecilia Serle's Will and Probate.