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Total number of records: 33

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Brotherton Collection33
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection33

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architecture24
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photographs10
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painting8
houses7
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Genoa, Italy7
London, United Kingdom4
Hastings, United Kingdom2
Nice, France2
York, United Kingdom2
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Messina, Sicily1
Naples, Italy1

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Sketch of an old house in Hastings

c. 1835

Undated pencil sketch of an old house in Hastings by Edward Petre Novello, inscribed in ink at the bottom right in a later hand. Novello moved to Hastings to improve his health after 1834.

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Drawing of The Hyde

c. 1800

Undated architectural pencil drawing on paper by an unidentified artist of The Hyde, a country house in Ingatstone, Essex, belonging to Thomas Brand Hollis.

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Sketch of a stone ruin in a landscape

c. 1830

Undated pencil sketch of a stone ruin in a landscape, which appears to be a gateway with overgrown foliage and a wooden fence in the foreground.

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Plan of Villa Quaglia?

c. 1849

Hand-drawn plan of a house and garden, likely Villa Quaglia in Nice, noting the locations of the bedrooms of Mary Sabilla Novello and her daughters (Mary) Sabilla Novello and Emma Aloysia Novello. Inc...

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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 watercolour [Ugbrooke House]

c. 1856

Untitled and undated watercolour on paper of the country house Ugbrooke House in Devon, with figures and a herd of deer, by Emma Aloysia Novello.

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Photograph of an interior

c. 1870

Undated photograph of an interior with walls covered in pictures and a table piled with books. An inscription in ink on the reverse notes that Mary Cowden Clarke stayed in this room.

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untitled watercolour [Robert Kay's cottage in Friar's Hill, Hastings]

c. 1835

Undated watercolour mounted on cardboard of Robert Kay's cottage in Friar's Hill, Hastings, by Edward Petre Novello. Edward lived in Hastings during the final years of his short life in at attempt to ...

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Cartes de visite of Villa Novello

1874

Seven cartes de visite of Villa Novello in Genoa, Italy and its surroundings, one of which is hand coloured.

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Photograph of Chiesa di San Gregorio

c. 1870

Undated mounted photograph of Chiesa di San Gregorio in Messina, Sicily, by Sommer and Behles of Naples and Rome. The church was destroyed by an earthquake in 1908.

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Prints of York and Scarborough

c. 1820

22 engravings and lithographs of scenes in York and Scarborough by various printmakers.

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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...

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