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Total number of records: 9

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection9
Brotherton Collection7

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
family5
painting5
poetry4
drawing3
letter writing3
creative writing2
gift giving2
portraits2
travel2
architecture1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy9
London, United Kingdom3
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Nice, France1
Rome, Italy1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Haines, Frederick1
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred1
Novello, Emma Aloysia1
Serle, Cecilia1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 18008

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 18998
Up to 19991

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Villa Novello east side

c. 1861

Photograph of a painted representation of the east side of Villa Novello in Genoa, with an inscription in pencil in a later hand on the reverse, noting that the depiction was as (Joseph) Alfred Novell...

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BC MS NCC/20/297 Emma Novello to (Joseph) Alfred Novello 8 July 1866 1
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Novello, Emma Aloysia to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1857-1880

Thirty three handwritten letters from Emma Aloysia Novello to her brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello, concerning family financial arrangements, her aspiration to make a career as an artist, portraits she...

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Serle, Cecilia to Haines, Frederick

1889-1890

Two handwritten letters, one on mourning paper marking the death of her husband Thomas James Serle in 1889, from Cecilia Serle to the solicitor Frederick Haines, congratulating him on his speech on Sh...

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Album with portraits, sketches and poems

1863-1873

An album containing portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics. The cover is embossed with a decoartive border and 'Album' in gilt lettering. A loose sheet written in blue ink records that the album was...

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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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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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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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untitled watercolour [mother nursing child]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour of a mother nursing a child by Edward Petre Novello, with a poem by his sister Mary Cowden Clarke adhered to the reverse, titled 'Sick-Bed Reflection' and dated 1873. Given the blu...

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Scrapbooks

1846-1897

The cover of a scrapbook gifted to (Mary) Sabilla Novello from her father Vincent Novello in 1846, an album of portraits, sketches, poems and acrostics dating from the early period of her life at Vill...

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