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Total number of records: 295

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives292
Objects3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection295
Brotherton Collection178

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
letter writing132
family111
poetry79
photographs39
death35
photography33
gift giving30
portraits22
theatre21
publishing18

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy295
London, United Kingdom36
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Rome, Italy8
Florence, Italy7
Milan, Italy5
Fermo, Italy4
Turin, Italy4
Nice, France3
Birmingham, United Kingdom2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred11
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria10
Novello, (Mary) Sabilla10
Haines, Frederick7
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden6
Novello, Mary Sabilla6
Gigliucci, Giovanni4
Novello, Clara Anastasia3
Unwin, Thomas Fisher3
Clarke, Charles Cowden2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 1800289
From 19005

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 1899277
Up to 199918

Archive Collection

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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GIGLIUCCI, Giovanni Battista

1854-1891

Typescript of the autobiography of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and a photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello).

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Photographs

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard.

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BC MS NCC/11/2/1 Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)
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Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and Clara Anastasia Gigliucci (née Novello)

1854

Photograph of Giovanni Battista Gigliucci and his wife Clara Anastasia Gigliucci née Novello, mounted on cardboard. The reverse is inscribed with the following: 'Portrait of Mother & Father an enlarg...

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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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Accounts

1896-1903

Mary Sabilla's accounts, expenses, receipts and invoices relating to her later years at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy. They include domestic and municipal material, documents relating to the death and...

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Accounts, receipts and invoices

c. 1903

Fifty eight examples of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's accounts, receipts and invoices from the last period of her life, some of which are domestic (relating to her life at Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy) an...

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Expenses, receipts and invoices

1896-1898

Fifteen examples of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's expenses, receipts and invoices, some of which relate to the death and burial of her sister Mary Cowden Clarke in 1898. The majority are written in Italian...

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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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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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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...

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