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Total number of records: 26

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive15
Brotherton Collection6
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection6
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Leeds Russian Archive1

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travel26
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painting7
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Siena, Italy2

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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
Benjamin, Walter (1892-1940)1
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-19401
Bryant, Julius1
English Heritage1
Hucklebridge, John1
Mills, John Fitzmaurice (1917-1991)1
Novello, (Joseph) Alfred1
Novello, Emma Aloysia1
Richard Mason1

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Letters from Rosemary Hunt to Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting

1965-1966

Two letters from the archaeologist Rosemary Hunt to Maurice de Sausmarez. The first is a handwritten airmail letter from the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem to Byam Shaw School of Drawing a...

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The English grand tour : artists and admirers of England's historic sites

Bryant, Julius; Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); English Heritage

2005

Includes bibliographical references (page 132) and indexes. "In this illustrated book, Julius Bryant, Chief Curator at English Heritage, looks at how some of England's most beautiful and iconic hist...

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Route plans through France

c. 1960

Undated handwritten route plans through France, beginning in Boulogne, noting the distances between places, paint colours, places to stay and places of interest. 1.

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The noble dwellings of Ireland

Mills, John FitzMaurice (1917-1991); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1987]

"With 158 illustrations, 77 in colour." "All paintings and drawings of the houses and grounds are by the author"--Title page verso.

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Archive Sub-series

Travel

1959-1960

Pamphlets, timetables, reservations and photographs associated with the painting trip Bridget Riley took across Italy with Maurice de Sausmarez in the summer of 1960, during which they travelled to Ro...

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Peter Smith to Maurice de Sausmarez

c. 1965

Handwritten letter from Peter Smith to Maurice de Sausmarez, thanking de Sausmarez for his visit to the School (likely Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting) and describing his time in Paris and tr...

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Ruth Taub to Maurice de Sausmarez

1957-1959

Two handwritten letters from Ruth Taub to Maurice de Sausmarez, discussing her work as a dictaphone operator in New York, describing her trip to Italy and the paintings she made there. Taub goes on to...

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Sketchbook with brown and green cover

c. 1830

A undated sketchbook with brown carboard covers and green leather spine and corners and a metal clasp belonging to Edward Petre Novello. It contains pencil sketches of animals, character studies, copi...

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Campervan pamphlets

1959-1960

Eleven printed pamphlets and price lists for different makes and models of campervans, collected by Maurice de Sausmarez in preparation for the painting trip Bridget Riley took across Italy with de Sa...

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Sketchbook with green cover

c. 1830

A undated sketchbook with green carboard covers and green leather spine and corners and a metal clasp belonging to Edward Petre Novello. It contains pencil and watercolour sketches of existing paintin...

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Photographs of Bridget Riley in Italy

1960

Copies of two black and white photographs, one showing Bridget Riley next to a table in a rural landscape and one showing the back of campervan and some washing on a line hung between two trees. Datin...

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Christine Risley to Maurice de Sausmarez

16 Oct 1969

Handwritten postcard from the textile artist and Goldsmiths lecturer Christine Risley to Maurice de Sausmarez, communicating her sadness that de Sausmarez was unwell and wishing him well during his fi...

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