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Total number of records: 45

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection40
Brotherton Collection38
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive5

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
family45
gift giving45
poetry22
drawing15
transcription9
writing8
illustration6
literature5
painting5
landscape3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy16
London, United Kingdom8
Bruges, Belgium2
Baden-Baden, Germany1
France1
Gadebridge, United Kingdom1
Grenada1
Guernsey1
Milan, Italy1
Nice, France1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Cowden Clarke, Charles1
Mozley, Edith (Later Countess Gigliucci)1
Ollier, Edmund1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 180039
From 19006

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189934
Up to 199911

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Autograph album

1926-1929

Autograph album with leather binding, gilt lettering and edges and blue marbled endpapers. Inscribed in ink: 'Xmas. 1926 L.M. de Sausmarez from Mam.' Includes autographs, quotations and sketches datin...

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Cover of a scrapbook

1846

Cover of a scrapbook with a brown leather spine and gilt lettering. The inside cover is inscribed: 'Mary Sabilla Novello 9 Craven Hill Bayswater From her loving Papa [Vincent Novello]. April 16th Shak...

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Sketch of York after F. Nycholson

9 May 1828

Pencil sketch of York by Edward Petre Novello after a lithographic print by F. Nycholson, for his brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello, who was at the time apprenticed to the organist and music seller John...

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'Conceit' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

27 Dec 1883

'Conceit: with a piece of point lace, given Dec. 27th 1883' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello. The short verse commemorates a gift of lace given to her niece, Porzia Gigliucci. Written in Genoa, Italy.

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Poem on the death of Charles Cowden Clarke by Thomas Serle

5 Apr 1877

Poem written by Thomas Serle to Mary Cowden Clarke on the death of her husband Charles Cowden Clarke, dated 5 April 1877.

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Family history

1926-1974

Materials relating to the history of the de Sausmarez family, a branch of which is spelt de Saumarez. Includes 2 autograph albums, 8 press cuttings and a Christmas card.

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Christmas card

c. 1965

Undated printed Christmas card designed by Maurice de Sausmarez and his second wife Jane and inscribed on the reverse: 'All our love - Maurice, Jane, Emma & Benedict'. Their youngest child at the time...

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Design for a Christmas card

Dec 1967

Design for a Christmas card in black ink and marker pen on gridded paper by Maurice de Sausmarez and his second wife Jane. The geometric design is based on squares and rectangles coloured in pink, gre...

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Sketch of Clara Anastasia Novello

c. 1830

Undated pencil portrait of Clara Anastasia Novello in profile, by her brother Edward Petre Novello. She is depicted from the neck up, wearing long earings and her hair in a bun. The collar of her clot...

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Notes

1840-1947

Various notes relating to the Novello Cowden Clarke family, including fragments of book dedications, biographical notes, autographs and puzzles.

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Manuscript of fables by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke

Dec 1877

Bound manuscript of poems by Mary Cowden Clarke transcribed by Charles Cowden Clarke. With green leather covers, decorative embossed details and marbled endpapers. Inscribed as follows: 'Manuscript co...

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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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