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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection11
Brotherton Collection9

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photographs5
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family2
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poetry2
theatre2
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Novello, (Joseph) Alfred2
Collins, Catherine1
Le Mesurier, E.1

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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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Maze or puzzle by (Joseph) Alfred Novello?

c. 1870

Undated maze or puzzle drawn on Villa Novello notepaper with instructions written in Italian at the botton, likely by (Joseph) Alfred Novello.

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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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Novello, (Joseph) Alfred to Collins, Catherine

c. 1870

Undated handwritten draft copy of a letter from (Joseph) Alfred Novello to his aunt Catherine Collins, thanking her for her letter and discussing the fitting of his new slippers.

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Le Mesurier, E. to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1860

Three undated handwritten letters from E. Le Mesurier to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, detailing various financial arrangements and mentioning Novello's patents. The final letter requests a reference from ...

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Cartes de visite of (Mary) Sabilla Novello as 'Minerva'

c. 1870

Six undated cartes de visite of (Mary) Sabilla Novello dressed as 'Minerva' from an 'Allegorical Prologue'. Two of the cartes include a seated 'Owlet' played by Charles Wilson. The photographs are by ...

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Photographs of Villa Novello exterior

c. 1870

Three undated photographs of the exterior of Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy, including a distant view with the surrounding landscape and two closer views of the front and side of the house. All inscrib...

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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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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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Cartes de visite of (Joseph) Alfred Novello

c. 1866

Seven undated cartes de visite in two different poses of (Joseph) Alfred Novello as 'Uncle Gargle' in 'Which is Which?', described on the back of one of the cards as a private theatrical at Villa Nove...

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