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Total number of records: 117

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Archives115
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Brotherton Collection103
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection103
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive14

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illustration117
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Mounted cutting of an illustration

c. 1960

Undated cutting of an illustration, possibly a copy of a nineteenth-century wood engraving, mounted on cardboard. It depicts a gallery scene with visitors looking at paintings on easels. The reverse c...

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Illustrated English and French alphabet

c. 1830

Undated English and French alphabet with pencil illustrations by Edward Petre Novello on twenty six sheets of paper, with the original paper folder inscribed in ink with unrelated names and addresses.

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Photograph of an illustration by Henry Wallis

c. 1860

Undated mounted photograph of an illustration of a work by John Milton by the artist Henry Wallis, incribed at the bottom in the hand of Emma Aloysia Novello, noting that they had known each other in ...

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Mounted cutting of an illustration by Gaynor Wood

c. 1960

Undated cutting of a comic illustration by Gaynor Wood mounted on cardboard, depicting two figures looking at a canvas on an easel in a studio, on which is painted two lines and a circle. The caption ...

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Album with illustrations, greetings cards and prints

1879-1897

Album containing (Mary) Sabilla Novello’s illustrations to her sister Mary Cowden Clarke’s ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines' dated to 1879 and 1884. Also including Christmas, New Year a...

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Blank greetings card with illustration of two lovers

c. 1960

Blank undated greetings card with illustration of two figures under the text 'we'll be lovers till the end' and 'this is the end!' printed on the inside. The back records that is is a Forget-Me-Not Ca...

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9 illustrations in pencil and ink for Bluebeard's Widow

c. 1876

Nine illustrations in pencil and ink for the publication 'Bluebeard's Widow and her Sister Anne. Their History evolved from Mendacious Chronicles'.

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Preparatory sketch for an illustration with two figures and a baby

c. 1860

Preparatory sketch for an illustration with two figures and a baby in a domestic setting. One figure is seated on the far left with their left leg crossed over their right. The central figure attends ...

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Illustrations for 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1884

Illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, contained in a sketchbook with dark blue leather covers with gilt geometic details...

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Illustrations for 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1903

Illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, contained in a sketchbook with a brown leather spine and paper labels on the front...

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Illustrations for ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines’ by Isabel Scott and (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1838-1903

Fifteen drawings illustrating Mary Cowden Clarke’s ‘The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines’, with drawings by Isabel Scott and 3 sketches by (Mary) Sabilla Novello designed to illustrate the s...

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Preparatory sketch of two figures for Bluebeard's Widow

c. 1876

Preparatory sketch of two standing figures for the illustration titled 'Little pitchers have long ears' for 'Bluebeard's Widow and her Sister Anne. Their History evolved from Mendacious Chronicles'. T...

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