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Total number of records: 147

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Archives144
Books and printed items2
Art items1

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive120
Brotherton Collection26
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection25
Herbert Read Collection1

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painting147
exhibitions50
art education39
letter writing37
academies and institutes24
sculpture17
catalogues15
universities15
drawing13
fellowships13

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London, United Kingdom85
Leeds, United Kingdom21
Devon, United Kingdom8
Hastings, United Kingdom4
Rome, Italy3
Bedford, United Kingdom2
Cheltenham, United Kingdom2
Croagnes, France2
Dover, United Kingdom2
Florence, Italy2

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Christ Church (University of Oxford)2
Matthiesen Gallery2

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Up to 1999125

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Eric Craven Gregory to Maurice de Sausmarez

28 Oct 1955

Typewritten letter from Eric Craven Gregory to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking de Sausmarez for his letter and noting the letter he had received from the painter Terry Frost with his responses to Leeds...

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Travel, architecture and landscapes

c. 1940-1969

Black and white and colour photographs and negatives of architecture and landscapes in France, Italy, East Africa and the United Kingdom, taken by Maurice de Sausmarez. Includes enlarged photographs o...

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Attempted sale by Buxton Mill Galleries

1975-1976

Correspondence related to the attempted sale of Maurice de Sausmarez's painting 'Cyclamen in Pot' by Buxton Mill Galleries in Norfolk to Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and later, the Univers...

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Sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, 1841

1841

A sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello contained pencil sketches of portraits, characters, flowers and landscapes, some of which are dated 1841. The sketchbook has a maroon leather spine wit...

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Bonamy Dobrée to Maurice de Sausmarez

27 Jul 1958

Typewritten Letter from Bonamy Dobrée, former Professor of English Literature at the University of Leeds, to Maurice de Sausmarez. Dobrée notes his recent move to a smaller house and his associated ...

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F.A.C. Taylor to Maurice de Sausmarez

3 May 1944

Typewritten letter from F.A.C. Taylor, Secretary and House Governor of the Peterborough and District Memorial Hospital, to Maurice de Sausmarez, declining to engage de Sausmarez to paint the walls of ...

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Sketchbook with green cover

c. 1829

Sketchbook belonging to Edward Petre Novello, the pages of which are watermarked 1829. It has green covers and a green leather spine and corners. An inscription on the inside cover records that it was...

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Letter from Anthony Bamber to Maurice de Sausmarez

5 Sep 1967

Handwritten letter from Anthony Bamber to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking de Sausmarez for his letter and noting that he is teaching at a primary school part time and making arrangements for his spare ...

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The Gregory Fellowship Exhibition Catalogue

1958

Printed catalogue for the Gregory Fellowship Exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, between 14 August and 20 September 1958. Work was shown by Reg Butler, Kenneth Armitage, Hubert...

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David Tindle to Maurice de Sausmarez

1967-1968

Two handwritten letters and one undated handmade Christmas card from the artist David Tindle to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking de Sausmarez for getting three paintings of his into the Royal Academy of...

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