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Total number of records: 57

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Brotherton Collection57
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection57

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print media57
portraits24
theatre6
maps5
music5
drawing4
family4
gift giving4
illustration4
photography4

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London, United Kingdom22
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Vienna, Austria4
New York, Usa2
York, United Kingdom2
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Florence, Italy1
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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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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 COWDEN CLARKE, Family

1739-1950

Material relating to the Novello, Cowden Clarke and Gigliucci families which is not attributable to a single member of the family. Includes financial and legal records, creative collaborations between...

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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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Prints

1851

Engravings after a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke after a drawing by her sister Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Portraits of

1847-1904

Portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as an adult, in print, photography and watercolour. The majority of the material is in the form of photographs and cartes de visite of her in the costumes of charac...

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Prints

1782-1888

Engravings and lithographs belonging to members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family, including portraits of musicians, artists and writers, views of rural and urban scenes, playbills for theatrical pe...

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Shakespeare

1835-1890

Preparatory notes for Mary Cowden Clarkes publications 'The Concordance to Shakespeare', first published in parts in 1844-45 and 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines: A Series of Fifteen Tales', fi...

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Portraits of

1838-1840

Four printed portraits of Clara Anastasia Novello published between 1838 and 1840, around the time of her opera studies in Milan in 1838 and before her marriage to Giovanni Battista Gigliucci in 1843.

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Prints of York and Scarborough

c. 1820

22 engravings and lithographs of scenes in York and Scarborough by various printmakers.

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Performances

1843-1845

Transcribed reviews of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's first vocal performances in public in 1843 and a print for the National Anti-Corn Law League Quadrilles dated 1845.

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Playbills for 'The Frozen Deep'

1857

Three printed copies of the playbill for the romantic drama 'The Frozen Deep' by Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens. Includes one playbill for the performance at Tavistock House Theatre on 8 January 1...

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