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Total number of records: 74

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives72
Art items1
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection74
Brotherton Collection49

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing32
family13
travel13
drawing11
landscape7
music7
diaries6
photographs6
poetry6
gift giving5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Nice, France33
Paris, France21
London, United Kingdom15
Salzburg, Austria8
Vienna, Austria7
Cannes, France6
Genoa, Italy6
Boulogne-Sur-Mer, France3
France3
Rome, Italy3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, Joseph Alfred3
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Dickens, Charles2
[Cowden Clarke, Mary]1
Allanda, Guiseppe1
Bell, John1
Cobden, Richard1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden-Clarke, Charles & Cowden-Clarke, Mary Victoria1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180068
From 19003
From 20002

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189969
Up to 19995

Archive File

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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Macready, Catherine Frances to [Cowden Clarke, Mary]

c. 1846

Undated handwritten letter from Catherine Frances Macready, writer and daughter of William Charles Macready, to Mary Cowden Clarke, thanking Cowden Clarke for her note and apologising for not being ab...

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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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English, Italian and French chronology

c. 1850

Undated handwritten list of dates important in the history of England, Italy and France in an unidentified hand.

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Cartes de visite of the Heaton family

1864-1870

Eleven cartes de visite of the Heaton family of Leeds, including John Deakin Heaton, his wife Fanny Heaton and their daughters Marian Heaton and Helen Frances Heaton.

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Sketchbooks

1859-1868

Sketchbook containing drawings, caricatures and sketches of various members of the Novello and Gigliucci families by sisters Clara, Emma and (Mary) Sabilla Novello and others, in various locations in ...

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Print of a satirical drawing of a dog crossing a bridge

1860

Print of a satirical drawing of a dog crossing a bridge. The notes on the reverse, dated 1950, record that the drawing was made and circulated in the wake of the Second Italian War of Independence in ...

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Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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Drawing of Bonnefoy School

c. 1829

Undated pencil sketch on paper of Bonnefoy School at Boulogne-sur-Mer on the north coast of France, by an unidentified artist. Notes in pencil on the reverse record that the Novello and Gigliucci chil...

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Receipt from Luigi Zuppani

21 Dec 1852

Handwritten receipt to Clara Anastasia Novello from Luigi Zuppani for 1,080 Francs paid as a brokers fee, in connetion with a document by the Royal Theatre, Madrid, Spain, as agreed by R.B.Benelli the...

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Sketchbook with brown and green cover

c. 1830

A undated sketchbook with brown carboard covers and green leather spine and corners and a metal clasp belonging to Edward Petre Novello. It contains pencil sketches of animals, character studies, copi...

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Bell, John to Cowden Clarke, Charles and Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

25 Feb 1867

Letter from the sculptor John Bell to Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke, in which John describes his surprise at finding himself in Italy, having sailed for ten days from France. He records the beauty of...

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