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Total number of records: 22

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection21
Brotherton Collection17
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
drawing22
gift giving22
family15
illustration6
letter writing5
literature5
painting5
poetry5
landscape3
photography3

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Genoa, Italy6
London, United Kingdom6
Bruges, Belgium2
Berlin (Germany)1
France1
Manchester, United Kindom1
Manchester, United Kingdom1
Rome, Italy1
Vienna, Austria1
York, United Kingdom1

Count of People and organisations

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Christie, Alexander1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Frost, Wlliam Edward1
Humphrys, W.1

Count of Earliest date

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From 180021
From 19001

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Up to 189917
Up to 19995

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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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Frost, Wlliam Edward to Humphrys, William

13 Oct 1863

Handwritten letter from the painter William Edward Frost to the engraver William Humphrys, in which Frost presents a pencil sketch of Edward Petre Novello to Humphrys, drawn by the artist Thomas Sewel...

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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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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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Christie, Alexander to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

3 Feb 1851

Handwritten letter and ink sketches from Alexander Christie to Mary Victoria Cowden Clarke, explaining how little time his has and expressing his regret at having left London before Cowden Clarke arri...

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Albums

c. 1831

Autograph album belonging to Emma Aloysia Novello, with contributions from her mother Mary Sabilla Novello, Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke and others.

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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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Autograph album

c. 1831

Autograph album belonging to Emma Aloysia Novello, with contributions from her mother Mary Sabilla Novello, Charles and Mary Cowden Clarke and others. The album was presented to her on the occasion of...

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Sketchbooks

1838-1903

Two volumes of pencil illustrations for Mary Cowden Clarke's 'The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines' by her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, first published in 1851.

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Sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, 1838

1838

A sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello containing pencil sketches of furniture, faces, characters, flowers and landscapes, many of which are dated 1838. The sketchbook has a green leather sp...

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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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Sketchbook with green watered silk cover and slipcase

1835

A sketchbook with green watered silk cover and slipcase belonging to Edward Petre Novello, with the number '2' embossed in gold on the spine. An inscription on the inside cover records that it was giv...

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