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Total number of records: 18

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Brotherton Collection18
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection18

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family5
landscape5
drawing4
home3
letter writing3
painting3
photographs3
portraits3
architecture2
works of art2

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Nice, France18
London, United Kingdom2
Genoa, Italy1
Liverpool, United Kingdom1
Paris, France1

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Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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Various family accounts

1843-1898

Various family accounts, mostly between (Joseph) Alfred Novello and his sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, associated with the family business. Some of the documents are written in Italian.

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Photographs of Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Four mounted photographs of the exterior of Villa Quaglia in Nice, including the garden and wider landscape. Members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family lived there from 1849 to 1861. Each photograph ...

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Letter...To the working classes of Great Britain

Jul 1854

Draft of a 'Letter from Mrs Vincent Novello addressed To the working classes of great Britain', beginning 'My dear Countrymen & Countrywomen' and noting her concerns for the welfare of the working cla...

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Sketchbooks

1859-1868

Sketchbook containing drawings, caricatures and sketches of various members of the Novello and Gigliucci families by sisters Clara, Emma and (Mary) Sabilla Novello and others, in various locations in ...

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Plan of Villa Quaglia?

c. 1849

Hand-drawn plan of a house and garden, likely Villa Quaglia in Nice, noting the locations of the bedrooms of Mary Sabilla Novello and her daughters (Mary) Sabilla Novello and Emma Aloysia Novello. Inc...

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Autograph book of Mary Sabilla Serle

1860-1861

Green leather autograph book belonging to Mary Sabilla Serle, daughter of Thomas James and Cecilia Serle (née Novello), including entries from her relatives Vincent Novello, (Joseph) Alfred Novello, ...

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Manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

1858-1868

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. Titled 'Poems C.C.C.' in red on the front cover, with decorative gold borders and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as ...

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BC MS NCC/13/9/15 Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello
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Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

c. 1850

Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello seated with her hands in her lap. She is pictured wearing a ring and bracelet on her proper left hand. The reverse contains pencil sketches of...

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Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

c. 1850

Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello seated with her hands in her lap. An inscription written in Italian in pencil in a later hand suggests that the portrait was made by Signorina...

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Landscape by Princess Reuss zu Köstritz

c. 1830

Undated mounted watercolour on paper of a landscape in Nice by Matilda Henrietta Elizabeth, Princess Reuss zu Köstritz.

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Drawing of a house

Aug 1860

Ink on paper drawing of a house in a landscape, possibly made by Emma Aloysia Novello, with a pencil inscription on the bottom left. Original paper folder is inscribed with details of the setting and ...

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