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Watercolours
c. 1830
Watercolours on paper by Edward Petre Novello, representing biblical, literary and mythological narratives, in addition to family portraits of his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, sister Clara Anastasia N...
Sketch of 'The Good Shepherd'
c. 1830
An undated pencil sketch of 'The Good Shepherd' by Edward Petre Novello, mounted in a cardboard frame. The shepherd holds a staff in their proper left hand and a sheep in their right. The under eye is...
[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]
[ca. 1461-1483]
Decoration: 64 miniatures within roundels with toothed edges, 58-83 mm in diameter. 7-line incipit initial 'C' in blue on decorated gold ground. 4-line initials in gold, on pink and blue grounds patte...
untitled watercolour [two figures next to a cliff]
c. 1830
Undated watercolour of two figures next to a cliff by Edward Petre Novello, mounted on cardboard. The figure on the right is likely to be Jesus Christ. There is a town or city in the background on the...
untitled watercolour [two figures in an interior]
c. 1830
Undated watercolour of two figures in an interior by Edward Petre Novello, mounted on cardboard with a metal fixing on the reverse. The figure on the right in seated and the figure on the left is stan...
untitled oil sketch [John the Baptist preaching]
c. 1835
Oil sketch of John the Baptist Preaching by Edward Petre Novello. An inscription on the reverse in a later hand records that the framed picture is in Florence in the Gigliucci home and speculates that...
untitled oil sketch [beheading of John the Baptist]
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, which is likely to illustrate a biblical narrative of the beheading of John the Baptist. There are three standing figures in the background, one of which ho...
untitled oil sketch [three figures with an infant]
c. 1830
Untitled oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of three standing figures who appear to be fleeing with an infant. It is possibly a depiction of the biblical narrative of the Massacre of the Innocents. T...
untitled watercolour [mother nursing child]
c. 1830
Undated watercolour of a mother nursing a child by Edward Petre Novello, with a poem by his sister Mary Cowden Clarke adhered to the reverse, titled 'Sick-Bed Reflection' and dated 1873. Given the blu...
untitled watercolour [crucifixion of Jesus, Gestas and Dismas]
c. 1830
Undated watercolour of the crucifixion of Jesus, Gestas and Dismas by Edward Petre Novello, at the moment where the body of Christ was pierced by the Lance of Longinus as the final of the five holy wo...
Hebrew synagogue Megillah scroll
ca. 1201-1300
Held in an open-ended cardboard tube 430 mm long and covered with black cloth on which there is some blindtooling and a label on which is typed, 'Bible/ Book of Esther/ Hebrew synagogue roll/ MS. 400'...