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Total number of records: 33

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Archives32
Art items1

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection33
Brotherton Collection18

Top 10: Subject

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letter writing18
family8
landscape5
drawing4
gift giving4
poetry4
home3
painting3
photographs3
portraits3

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Nice, France33
London, United Kingdom11
Genoa, Italy3
Bristol, United Kingdom1
Devon, United Kingdom1
Liverpool, United Kingdom1
Manchester, United Kingdom1
Paris, France1
Rochester, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Novello, Joseph Alfred3
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria2
Dickens, Charles2
Allanda, Guiseppe1
Cobden, Richard1
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Farrar, Eliza Ware1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
Mylne, Mrs M.1

Archive Item

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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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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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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[?] Serge to de Wolkoff, Nicolas

19 Dec 1889

Handwritten letter from Serge [?] to Nicolas de Wolkoff, written in French.

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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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BC MS NCC/3/5/2 Watercolour portrait of Mary Sabilla Novello
Archive Art Item

Watercolour portrait of Mary Sabilla Novello

c. 1850

Watercolour and pencil portrait of Mary Sabilla Novello, possibly by Signorina Giletta in Nice according to the note on the reverse.

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Archive Item

Institution du Saint-Esprit to 'Mademoiselle'

30 Jul 1860

Handwritten letter from an unidentified sender from the Institution du Saint-Esprit in Nice to an unidentified 'Mademoiselle', written in French.

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Novello, (Joseph) Alfred to Novello, Mary Sabilla

15 Jul 1849

Handwritten letter from (Joseph) Alfred Novello to his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, providing detailed family and business updates.

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Contract between Teresa Gassin and (Joseph) Alfred Novello

12 Jan 1887

Contract between Teresa Gassin and (Joseph) Alfred Novello, written in Italian and dated 12 January 1887, with an annotated piece of paper.

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Carte de visite of Nice

4 Mar 1868

Carte de visite of Nice with a view taken from Col de Villefranche, with a date inscribed in pencil on the reverse. Members of the Novello Cowden Clarke lived at Villa Quaglia in Nice, then part of It...

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Nicois (pseudonym) to Cobden, Richard

9 Mar 1860

Handwritten letter from 'Nicois' (possibly a pseudonym for (Joseph) Alfred Novello) to the politician Richard Cobden, written in French. Likely to relate to the campaign against 'Taxes on Knowledge'.

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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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