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Total number of records: 57

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives38
Art items13
Books and printed items5
Objects1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection39
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection34
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive18
Herbert Read Collection2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
portraits57
painting39
family19
paintings14
drawing12
works of art11
exhibitions9
photography9
photographs8
press cuttings5

Count of Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom12
Hull, United Kingdom4
Leeds, United Kingdom4
Nice, France3
Genoa, Italy2
Cleckheaton, United Kingdom1
Garrowby, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Alba, Jacobo Stuart Fitz-James Y Falco Duque De (1878-1953)1
Collier, John (1850-1934)1
Devonshire, Dukes of1
Devonshire, Spencer Compton Cavendish, Duke of, 1833-19081
Esquerra Del Bayo, Joaquin1
Esquerra Del Bayo, Joaquin (1863-)1
Fosca, Francois (1881-1980)1
Goya, Francisco (1746-1828)1
Goya, Francisco, 1746-18281
Hardwick Hall (England)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180031
From 190024

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189932
Up to 199924

Archive Item

The Studio

Mar 1946

Printed copy of the Studio published in March 1946, including a reproduction of 'Portrait of a Girl' by Maurice de Sausmarez as part of an article titled 'The Younger British Artists' by Bryan Roberts...

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untitled watercolour [copy of a portrait]

c. 1860

Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of a portrait copied by Emma Aloysia Novello in Genoa, with an inscription in ink at the bottom.

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Archive Print Item

Catalogue of the pictures at Hardwick Hall : in the possession of his grace Duke of Devonshire

Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe Earl of (1846-1907)

Caption title. Blank leaves throughout for notes.

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BC MS NCC/3/5/2 Watercolour portrait of Mary Sabilla Novello
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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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R.H.D. Wilmot-Wilkinson calling card

c. 1950

Printed calling card for the portrait painter R.H.D. Wilmot-Wilkinson.

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Miniature portrait of a young Charles Cowden Clarke

c. 1810

Miniature glazed and framed portrait of a young Charles Cowden Clarke. Undated and by an unknown artist. The portrait appears to have been painted in tempera. The frame is rectangular and painted blac...

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Minitature portrait of (Joseph) Alfred Novello

c. 1829

Miniature glazed watercolour portrait of (Joseph) Alfred Novello mounted in an oval metal buckle with an ornamental border. A paper label on the reverse records that the portrait was painted when the ...

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BC MS NCC/1/3/1 Portrait of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello
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miniature portrait

c. 1800

Miniature portrait of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello in the form of a glazed pendant. The portrait appears to be in tempera, with a woven hair panel on the reverse, obscured by two paper labels adhered to ...

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Watercolour sketch of a self-portrait

c. 1827

Watercolour and pencil sketch of a self-portrait by Edward Petre Novello, pictured from the shoulders up wearing a white shirt and dark blue waistcoat. Inscriptions in pencil at the bottom suggest tha...

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Self Portraits of Contemporary Painters exhibition catalogue

1955

Printed catalogue for an exhibition titled Self Portraits of Contemporary Painters at the Ferens Art Gallery in Hull, held between 17 September and 9 October 1955. The exhibition included 'The Artist ...

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F.H. Roithwood to Maurice de Sausmarez

30 Jun 1967

Typewritten letter from F.H. Roithwood, Personal Assistant to Sir William Fenton of BBA Group Limited, to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking him for returning the blocks of the colour photograph of his po...

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Studies, Drawings and Sculpture in Contemporary Portraiture

May 1966

Printed catalogue for the Studies, Drawings and Sculpture in Contemporary Portraiture exhibition presented at the Qantas Gallery between 3 and 21 May 1966, organised by the Institute of Directors Arts...

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