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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 Collection

Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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NOVELLO, Giuseppe ‘Joseph’

1744-1954

One box containing a birth certificate and residence permit for Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello, two of his notebooks with transcriptions in Italian and English and a miniature portrait.

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Archive File

Legal

1744-1803

Birth certificate and residence permit for Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello.

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Archive Item

birth certificate

1744-1766

The birth certificate of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello, written in Latin and dated 1766. He was born in Tonengo in Piedmont in 1844.

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residence permit

12 Oct 1803 - 31 Dec 1803

A residence permit allowing Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello to live in the United Kingdom for one month from 12 October 1803, extended to 31 December 1803. His address is listed as Oxford Street, Middlesex.

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Archive File

Notebooks

1765-1954

Two of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello's notebooks, with transcriptions and translations by his great-great-granddaughter Donna Nerina Medici di Marignano Gigliucci from 1954. The content includes details o...

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Folder

1954

Brown card folder with a description of the content of transcribed sections from two notebooks of Giuseppe 'Joesph' Novello, which it formerly contained.

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Translated transcription

Oct 1954

Handwritten transcribed extracts from two of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello's notebooks by Donna Nerina Medici di Marignano Gigliucci, one of the donors of the collection, translated into English.

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Transcription

c. 1954

Typed and annotated transcribed extracts from two notebooks by Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello by Donna Nerina Medici di Marignano Gigliucci, in Italian.

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Notebook

1765-1781

A small notebook belonging to Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello, written in Italian. It was written before he migrated to London in 1771. It passed to (Mary) Sabilla Novello at Villa Novello in Genoa and on t...

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Notebook

1776-1777

A small leather bound notebook with a decorative metal clasp, belonging to Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello and written in Italian while he was living at 240 Oxford Street in London. It passed to (Mary) Sabi...

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Portraits of

c. 1830

Miniature portrait of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello in the form of a glazed pendant.

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