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Total number of records: 72

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Archives64
Books and printed items6
Art items2

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Brotherton Collection72
Medieval Manuscripts59
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection7
Herbert Read Collection3
English Literature1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

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animals72
saints31
virgin mary15
christ13
birth and youth of christ12
human occupations representing seasons and months12
fabulous animals10
angels9
zodiacal signs9
birds8

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Camargue (France)1
France1
London, United Kingdom1
Osgoldcross (England)1
Pontefract (England)1
Rome, Italy1
Went River (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)3
Brabo, Michele1
Dobree, Bonamy1
Dobree, Bonamy (1891-1974)1
Droit, Michel (1923-)1
Gentleman, David1
Holmes, Richard (1826-1900)1
Holtz, Serge1
Pontefract Castle (Pontefract, England)1
Tew, Thomas William (1828-)1

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Oil sketches

c. 1830

Undated oil sketches on woodpulp board and canvas by Edward Petre Novello. They are likely to have been painted in around 1830, following his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts and before his early ...

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Sketchbooks

1822-1835

Ten sketchbooks belonging to Edward Petre Novello, dating from his time as a student at Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury and the Royal Academy of Arts and the period afterwards, including travels to Franc...

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A short account of the history of Pontefract and chief places of interest in the surrounding neigbourhood : with some observations on the geological features of the district; specially prepared for the delegates attending the 44th Annual Meeting of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes: At Pontefract, on June 22nd and 23rd, 1881

Holmes, Richard (1826-1900); Tew, Thomas William (1828-); Tew, Thomas William (1828-); Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes. Meeting

1881

1-18 p, 2nd count: Paper read before the delegates of the Yorkshire Union of Mechanics' Institutes, 23rd June, 1881, by Thomas William Tew; the paper is on Osgoldcross, in particular Wentdale, and som...

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Sketch of a tree and deer

c. 1830

Undated pencil sketch of a tree with two deer by Edward Petre Novello.

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untitled watercolour [country house with deer]

c. 1850

Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of a country house with deer and a body of water in the foreground, by Emma Aloysia Novello.

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untitled oil sketch [soldiers with horses and dogs]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a rural lanscape with six figures, some of whom appear to be soldiers and three of whom are mounted on horses. One smaller figure on the left holds the c...

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untitled oil sketch [two figures and a horse]

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of a woodland scene with two figures and a brown horse. The standing figure is wearing a suit of armour with a red cape and plumed helmet, while the seated ...

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The jungle books

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936); Gentleman, David; Dobrée, Bonamy (1891-1974)

1968

Edition limited to 1500 copies.

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Just so stories : for little children

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

c1965

"First published in 1902."--T.p. verso.

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Small sketchbook with maroon cover

c, 1825

Small undated sketchbook belonging to Edward Petre Novello, with maroon leather covers and a metal clasp. It contains life drawings, character studies, drawings after existing paintings and sculptures...

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Just so stories for little children

Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)

1926

From title-page verso: "First edition (4to) September 1902.".

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Beasts and saints

Waddell, Helen (1889-1965)

1934

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