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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection10
Brotherton Collection8

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music10
family6
poetry4
home3
letter writing3
theatre3
drawing2
finance2
gift giving2
accounts payable and receivable1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy10
London, United Kingdom3
Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Rome, Italy1

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Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Smith, Miss Leigh1

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Up to 19992

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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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NOVELLO, (Mary) Sabilla

1838-1904

Financial, artistic, legal and literary material related to (Mary) Sabilla Novello and her short singing career. Includes portraits of her, albums of greetings cards and her illustrations to her siste...

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Events

1868-1877

Printed materials related to musical and theatrical events held by the Novello Cowden Clarke family at their home, Villa Novello, in Genoa, Italy.

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Stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello

c. 1865

Thirteen photographs of stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello in Genoa. An inscription in a later hand on the original enclosure notes that the decoration was in place when (Joseph) Alf...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia

2 Mar 1893

Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, thanking her for a picture and describing her emotions on hearing her niece Portia Gigliucci playing her grandfather (and Mary and...

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Concerto Storico

1868-1869

Draft printed and annotated programme, written in Italian, for a series of 'Concerto Storico' [Historical Concerts] held at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy.

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A Shakespearian Acrostic Charade

6 Feb 1869

Printed programme for a performance of 'A Shakespearian Acrostic Charade' at Villa Novello in Genoa, with a prologue by Mary Cowden Clarke.

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A Collection of Dances

1815

One volume of manuscript music bound in brown leather, titled 'A Collection of Dances, Composed for his Children by V. Novello'. Sold by Cabusac & Sons, 196 Strand, London. Presented to Porzia Gigliuc...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Smith, Miss Leigh

24 Dec 1885

Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to Miss Leigh Smith, thanking her for the Christmas calendar and card and the news of their travels, going on to discuss the weather and falling stars and de...

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'Invocation to Music' by Mary Cowden Clarke

23 Apr 1869

Poem titled 'Invocation to Music' by Mary Cowden Clarke, written at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and dated 23 April 1869.

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