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Total number of records: 46

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives39
Books and printed items7

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection27
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection26
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive13
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
drawing46
art education36
sculpture17
painting10
students4
drawing, european3
letter writing3
photographs3
study tours3
art2

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom9
Bruges, Belgium2
Bonnelles, France1
Deal, United Kingdom1
Dover, United Kingdom1
England1
Horsham, United Kingdom1
Italy1
Leeds, United Kingdom1
Norfolk, United Kingdom1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Arts Council of Great Britain2
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
British Institute of Adult Education2
Jodie Edwards2
Johnson, Charles (1870-1961)2
Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)2
Leonardo, Da Vinci, 1452-15192
Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn (1606-1669)2
Rembrandt Harmenszoon Van Rijn, 1606-16692
Adam, James, 1732-17941

Count of Earliest date

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From 180029
From 190016
From 20001

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189927
Up to 199917
Up to latest2

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Archive Print Item

Drawing for young children : containing one hundred and fifty drawing copies, and numerous exercises

Grant, Horace (1838-1886); Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)

1840

At head of title: Under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.

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Elementary drawing under the Board of Education : a practical handbook for the teacher of drawing in elementary schools

Gardiner, Alfonzo

[1901]

"Being the twelfth edition of "How to earn the drawing grants", entirely re-written."

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Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt (C.1)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519); Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669); Johnson, Charles (1870-1961); British Institute of Adult Education; Arts Council of Great Britain

[1955?]

Exhibition catalogue. "The reproductions in this exhibition were collected and loaned by Ina and Eve Sheldon-Williams. This is an `Art for the People' exhibition and is organised and circulated on be...

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Drawings from Leonardo to Rembrandt (C.2)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519); Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669); Johnson, Charles (1870-1961); British Institute of Adult Education; Arts Council of Great Britain

[1955?]

Exhibition catalogue. "The reproductions in this exhibition were collected and loaned by Ina and Eve Sheldon-Williams. This is an `Art for the People' exhibition and is organised and circulated on be...

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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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Sketch of a figure sewing

c. 1831

Undated pencil sketch of a figure sewing by Edward Petre Novello, with an inscription in ink along the bottom in a later hand, noting that the subject was a school companion from the Augustinian conve...

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Maurice de Sausmarez Archive

De Sausmarez, Maurice (1915-1969)

c.1900-2015

Archive of artist, educator and writer Maurice de Sausmarez (1915-69). The archive comprises an extensive collection of manuscripts of his numerous lectures, articles and publications, incoming corres...

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Sketchbook with brown marbled cover

c. 1822

Sketchbook belonging to Edward Petre Novello, the pages of which are watermarked 1822. It has brown marbled covers and a brown leather spine and corners. It contains portraits, character studies and l...

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Archive File

Drawings

1831-1853

Pencil drawings and sketches by Emma Aloysia Novello, the majority of which are after the antique and most likely copied from plaster casts as part of her artistic training. It is possible that they d...

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Five art exercises

c. 1960

Five handwritten experimental art exercises by Maurice de Sausmarez, based on touch, still life and drawing from life.

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