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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection5
Brotherton Collection3
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

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gift giving6
drawing3
family2
letter writing2
poetry2
portraits2
accounts payable and receivable1
artists1
charities1
classical music1

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Genoa, Italy2
London, United Kingdom2
Rome, Italy1

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Frost, Wlliam Edward1
Humphrys, W.1
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)1
Severn, Joseph1

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Archive Item

Photograph of a portrait of Betsy Hill as a baby

c. 1950

Undated modern black and white photographic reproduction of a painted portrait of Betsy Hill as a baby, with a cat by her side. An inscription on the reverse notes that the original portrait, by an un...

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Archive Series

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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Frost, Wlliam Edward to Humphrys, William

13 Oct 1863

Handwritten letter from the painter William Edward Frost to the engraver William Humphrys, in which Frost presents a pencil sketch of Edward Petre Novello to Humphrys, drawn by the artist Thomas Sewel...

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Archive Object Item

Medal of Georges Braque by André-Henri Torcheux

c. 1950

Copper medal dedicated to the artist Georges Braque by André-Henri Torcheux. The obverse contains a portrait of Braque alongside his name and the reverse is a cubist still life composition inspired b...

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Severn, Joseph to Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl)

9 Nov 1833

Handwritten letter from the artist Joseph Severn to Mary Sabilla Novello, thanking her husband Vincent Novello for the gift of music and noting the long delays in receiving post in Rome. Severn congra...

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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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