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Total number of records: 35

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection35
Brotherton Collection20

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing19
family10
travel9
photographs8
health7
portraits6
drawing5
art education3
gift giving3
music3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Rome, Italy25
Genoa, Italy12
London, United Kingdom7
Florence, Italy4
Turin, Italy2
Fermo, Italy1
France1
Madrid, Spain1
Messina, Sicily1
Milan, Italy1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, Emma Aloysia3
Haines, Frederick2
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Novello, Clara Anastasia2
Severn, Joseph2
[Novello, Mary Sabilla]1
Bell, John1
Collins, Catherine (Nee Hehl)1
Cowden-Clarke, Charles & Cowden-Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cusins [William George?]1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180031
From 19003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189931
Up to 19994

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Photograph of memorial to Keats in Rome

c. 1960

Fragment of a photograph of a memorial to the poet John Keats from the Protestant Cemetery in Rome, Italy.

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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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Photograph of Chiesa di San Gregorio

c. 1870

Undated mounted photograph of Chiesa di San Gregorio in Messina, Sicily, by Sommer and Behles of Naples and Rome. The church was destroyed by an earthquake in 1908.

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Severn, Joseph to Novello, Vincent

7 Jun 1830

Handwritten letter from the artist Joseph Severn to Vincent Novello. Severn notes his pleasure on learning that Novello is also in Italy and that it might be possible for them to meet in Rome. Severn ...

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Severn, Joseph to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

9 Nov 1833

Handwritten letter from the artist Joseph Severn to Mary Sabilla Novello, thanking her husband Vincent Novello for the gift of music and noting the long delays in receiving post in Rome. Severn congra...

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Gifford, Edward to Novello, Clara Anastasia

9 May 1901

Typewritten letter from Edward Gifford to Clara Anastasia Novello, thanking Novello for the picture of Father Damien and noting that he was about to send drawings of Novello to Rome.

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Designs for a 24 hour clock face with newspaper cutting

c. 1883

Designs for a 24 hour clock face by (Joseph) Alfred Novello on Villa Novello notepaper, with a pasted newspaper cutting on the forthcoming International Geodetic Congress in Rome to be held in 1884.

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Photograph of an illustration by Henry Wallis

c. 1860

Undated mounted photograph of an illustration of a work by John Milton by the artist Henry Wallis, incribed at the bottom in the hand of Emma Aloysia Novello, noting that they had known each other in ...

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Sketches of Wolfgang Helbig

Mar 1878

Sketches of the German archaeologist Wolfgang Helbig in Rome by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, playing a keyboard instrument and travelling in a carriage, dated 13 March 1878 and 23 March 1878 respectively.

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla

20 Mar 1884

Handwritten postcard from Dinah Maria Craik to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, noting that she had not been able to travel until now and remains weak. She records her travels plans to Genoa and Rome and reque...

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Sketchbook with brown leather cover

c. 1830

A undated sketchbook with brown leather covers and a metal clasp belonging to Edward Petre Novello. It contains pencil and watercolour sketches from existing paintings and sculptures, which suggest at...

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Craik, Dinah Maria (née Mulock) to Gigliucci, Porzia and Gigliucci, Valeria

30 Nov 1883

Handwritten letter from Dinah Maria Craik to Porzia and Valeria Gigliucci ('the lilies'), noting their present stay at Villa Novello in Genoa and hoping that Craik and her husband will travel to Italy...

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