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Cabinet photograph after Joseph Severn's portrait of John Keats

Apr 1876

Cabinet photograph after Joseph Severn's portrait of John Keats on his deathbed in 1821. The reverse is inscribed in the hand of Mary Cowden Clarke with a note on the conditions under which the origin...

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untitled watercolour [copy of a portrait]

c. 1860

Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of a portrait copied by Emma Aloysia Novello in Genoa, with an inscription in ink at the bottom.

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Carte de visite of a sketch of Leigh Hunt

c. 1870

Carte de visite of a sketch of the poet Leigh Hunt, with an inscription on the reverse by Mary Cowden Clake.

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Photograph of Sarah Marshall

30 Mar 1870

Photograph of Sarah Marshall looking through a microscope, inscribed on the reverse.

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Photographs of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke

May 1873

Two cartes de visite and one enlargement of a photographic double portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and his wife Mary Cowden Clarke.

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Photographs of a pencil portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke

1862

Two photographs of a pencil portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke in profile by Mary's sister Emma Aloysia Novello, drawn in Genoa, Italy in 1862. One is mounted on card.

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Photograph of Porzia Gigliucci and Valeria Gigliucci

c. 1875

Photograph of Porzia Gigliucci and Valeria Gigliucci seated and wearing dresses, identified by an inscription in ink on the reverse, which notes that Valeria is seated on the left and Porzia on the ri...

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BC MS NCC/19/11/41 Reverse of double photographic portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke
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Double photographic portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke

c. 1870

Undated glazed double photographic portrait of Charles Cowden Clarke and Mary Cowden Clarke in a leather and gilt metal case, with a blue textile mount.

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Case for cartes de visite

c. 1870

White cardboard case for cartes de visite by the photographers G.B. Sciutto & Co. of Genoa, Italy. Inscribed in ink on the reverse noting that the case contained family portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Nov...

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Photograph of Helene [?]

19 Oct 1897

Mounted photograph of Helene [?] by Perosini of Genoa, inscribed in ink to her friends Mary Cowden Clarke and (Mary) Cowden Clarke.

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Two watercolour portraits

c. 1830

Two undated watercolour sketches mounted on yellow paper, of two figures wearing hats. An inscription in Italian at the top of the mount suggests that they may have been by Edward Petre Novello before...

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BC MS NCC/7/8/2 Carte de visite of (Joseph) Alfred Novello
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Carte de visite of (Joseph) Alfred Novello

c. 1870

Undated carte de visite of (Joseph) Alfred Novello in an oval format. Novello is wearing a waistcoat and jacket and has a long white beard. The photographic studio was Pescio e Remondini in Genoa, Ita...

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