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Total number of records: 1722

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives1615
Art items66
Objects41

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1722
Brotherton Collection1258

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing544
family291
drawing260
poetry203
portraits184
painting149
music138
photographs138
gift giving130
illustration103

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom305
Genoa, Italy295
Nice, France33
Rome, Italy25
Florence, Italy23
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Vienna, Austria22
Paris, France21
Manchester, United Kingdom12
Salzburg, Austria11

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria68
Cowden Clarke, Charles34
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred29
Novello, Vincent27
Novello, Clara Anastasia20
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla19
Haines, Frederick18
Hunt, James Henry Leigh16
Novello, Joseph Alfred16
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden14

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 170051
From 18001603
From 190062
From 20006

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 179910
Up to 18991592
Up to 1999120

Archive Series

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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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Letters

1770-1966

Correspondence between members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family and their personal and professional networks. Together they illuminate both the everyday lives of the Novello Cowden Clarke family an...

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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Music

c. 1800-1900

Manuscript music associated with the Novello Cowden Clarke family, primarily composed, transcribed or arranged by Vincent Novello and performed by his daughter Clara Anastasia Novello.

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NOVELLO, Mary Sabilla (née HEHL)

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...

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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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SERLE, Thomas James

1843-1877

Two poems by Thomas James Serle, the husband of Cecilia Novello.

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NOVELLO, (Joseph) Alfred

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...

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SERLE, Cecilia (née NOVELLO)

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.

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NOVELLO, Edward Petre

1822-1835

Drawings, oil sketches, watercolours, prints and sketchbooks by the artist Edward Petre Novello.

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Accounts

1833-1890

Financial documents relating to Novello & Co and (Joseph) Alfred Novello's investments in shipping and railways.

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Accounts

1896-1903

Mary Sabilla's accounts, expenses, receipts and invoices relating to her later years at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. They include domestic and municipal material, documents relating to the death and...

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