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Two drawings of plants at Villa Novello
c. 1875
Two drawings of plants at Villa Novello, Genoa, Italy, by Mary Cowden Clarke. Both are inscribed with notes about the position, size and nature of the plants.
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.
Cowden Clarke, Charles to Ollier, Edmund
27 Sep 1868
Draft handwritten letter from Charles Cowden Clarke to Edmund Ollier, noting Ollier's support for a memorial to their mutual friend, the poet Leigh Hunt. Along with his wife Mary Cowden Clarke, they o...
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...
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...
Album with illustrations, greetings cards and prints
1879-1897
Album containing (Mary) Sabilla Novello’s illustrations to her sister Mary Cowden Clarke’s ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines' dated to 1879 and 1884. Also including Christmas, New Year a...
'A Round Robin!' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello
5 Jan 1882
'A Round Robin!' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, with a drawing of a robin surrounded by the autographs of her sister Mary Cowden Clarke, her brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello, her own, and those of her niec...
Illustrations for 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello
1884
Illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, contained in a sketchbook with dark blue leather covers with gilt geometic details...
Sketchbooks
1838-1903
Two volumes of pencil illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, first published in 1851.
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...
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...
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...