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Poem by Anna Laetitia Barbauld
c. 1800
Undated handwritten poem by the poet Anna Laetitia Barbauld, beginning ‘Life! I know not what thou art'.
Sketch of a religious figure
c. 1830
Undated pencil sketch of an unidentified figure by Edward Petre Novello, with hands together in prayer and flowing robes. It is possible that Novello made the drawing after an existing work of art.
Scrapbook containing landscapes
c, 1850
Undated scrapbook bound in dark green watered silk containing 'landscapes fancy suibjects &c &c', with mounted engravings of architecture, street scenes, landscapes and works of art.
Drawing titled 'La curiosité'
c. 1850
Undated mounted pencil on paper drawing titled 'La curiosité', with a figure revealing a canvas on an easel and a copy of the Venus de Milo on the right, by Emma Aloysia Novello. The drawing appears ...
Views of Novello's new building at 160 Wardour Street
1906-1907
Two mounted copies of views, exterior and interior, of Novello's new building at 160 Wardour Street, London, by the architect Frank L. Pearson, from Academy Architecture. The original drawings were ex...
Drawings
c. 1830
Pencil, ink and watercolour sketches by Edward Petre Novello, including portraits of members of the Novello family, illustrations for his sister Mary Cowden Clarke's publications, copies after existin...
Signed note about music and heaven
26 Jul 1907
Signed note with the autograph of Clara Gigliucci née Novello, which reads: 'Music is the only one of the fine arts admitted into Heaven'. Dated 26 July 1907. An inscription at the bottom in a later ...
Notes by Charles Cowden Clarke on Keats' 'Bright Star'
c. 1868
Notes by Charles Cowden Clarke on John Keats' sonnet 'Bright Star, would I were stedfast as thou art', first published in 1838. The note records that Keats wrote to Charles Cowden Clarke on the same s...
Oil sketch for 'Cupid Riding on a Lion'
c. 1834
Oil sketch for 'Cupid Riding on a Lion', the final version of which was exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition in 1834. It was inspired by the epic poem 'The Faerie Queene' by Edmund...
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia
1877-1893
Five letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, beginning with the immediate aftermath of the death of Mary's husband, Charles Cowden Clarke. The letters contain discussion...
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, Clara Anastasia
25 Apr 1881
Letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister Clara Anastasia Novello, which mentions Joseph Severn's final portrait of the poet John Keats, which Mary thinks she saw in 1878 and admired, even if she t...
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 ...