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South Bank Show Production Archive5
Brotherton Collection4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection4
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive2

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theatre11
drawing3
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music3
painting3
poetry3
art education2
finance2
letter writing2
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Fermo, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
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Restoration of paintings

2003

Close up shots of a picture restorer cleaning a painting. Two others talk about repairs they are making to Burne Jones' The Fall of Lucifer; close ups of the painting.

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Andrew Lloyd Webber.

11/06/2003

Interview discusses Victorian social painting, various specific paintings Lloyd Webber has purchased, the lack of value placed on Victorian painting when Lloyd Webber began collecting, the Pre-Raphael...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Andrew Lloyd Webber

11/06/2003

Interview discusses Victorian social painting, various specific paintings Lloyd Webber has purchased, the lack of value placed on Victorian painting when Lloyd Webber began collecting, the Pre-Raphael...

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Melvyn Bragg interviews Andrew Lloyd Webber

18/06/2003

Interview discusses Lloyd Webber's commissioning of Ronnie Wood's triptych painting, snobbery in art, exhibiting his art collection at the Royal Academy, writing The Woman in White, John Atkinson Grim...

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Watercolours

c. 1830

Watercolours on paper by Edward Petre Novello, representing biblical, literary and mythological narratives, in addition to family portraits of his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, sister Clara Anastasia N...

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Royal Academy exhibition

16/09/2003

The Royal Academy's exhibition of Lloyd Webber's art collection, titled 'Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters: The Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection'. Shots of the gallery, building exterior, and short inter...

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Letter from Sarah Morton to Maurice de Sausmarez

6 Jun 1966

Handwritten letter from former student Sarah Morton to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking him for the invitation but declining as she cannot get away from the Playhouse in Sheffield. She notes that she wo...

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1935 Exhibition: Artists against Fascism & War

1935

Printed exhibition catalogue for the '1935 Exhibition: Artists against Fascism & War' organised by the Artists' International Association and held at 28 Soho Square in London. The artists Eric Gill, D...

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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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Sketch for a theatre curtain

c. 1830

Undated pencil and ink sketch of a standing figure with raised proper left hand by Edward Petre Novello, with an inscription in a later hand noting that is was for the drop curtain at the Adelphi Thea...

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NOVELLO COWDEN CLARKE, Family

1739-1950

Material relating to the Novello, Cowden Clarke and Gigliucci families which is not attributable to a single member of the family. Includes financial and legal records, creative collaborations between...

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