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Total number of records: 16

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection16
Brotherton Collection14

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children16
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painting5
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poetry3
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christianity2
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Genoa, Italy3
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Allsop, Thomas1
Clarke, Mary Victoria Cowden1
Lamb, John1
Novello, Joseph Alfred1

Archive Object File

Photographs of Mary Sabilla Serle

c. 1848

Three daguerreotypes in maroon leather cases lined in red velvet. Photographic portraits of Mary Sabilla Serle when she was nine years old. She was the daughter of Cecilia Novello and Thomas James Ser...

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Allsop, Thomas

28 Jun 1837-29 Aug 1837

Two handwritten letters from Mary Cowden Clarke to the author Thomas Allsop, mentioning her pleasure at the prospect of a business relationship between Allsop and her husband Charles Cowden Clarke alo...

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Sketch of 'A Scrub'

c. 1830

A pencil sketch mounted on cardboard by Edward Petre Novello, of a child wearing a dress and apron, stood on a stool to scrub a table with a brush in their proper right hand. The drawing is inscribed ...

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Sketch of a child holding a hat

c. 1830

Undated pencil sketch of a portrait of a child holding a hat by Edward Petre Novello, inscribed in ink in a later hand on the reverse.

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Sketch of Mary Sabilla Serle

c. 1830

Undated pencil sketch of Mary Sabilla Serle, aged three, by her uncle Edward Petre Novello. She is pictured seated, wearing a dress and holding flowers in both hands. She was the daughter of his siste...

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untitled watercolour [two young children in a landscape]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour of two young children in a landscape by Edward Petre Novello, mounted on cardboard. There are ferns in the foreground and possibly the sea in the background. One of the children is...

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Lamb, John to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

29 Jan 1852

Handwritten letter from John Lamb to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, thanking him for his encouragement and describing the financial difficulties caused by his children and the associated difficulty of obtai...

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'The New Children's Friend' by Mary Cowden Clarke

c. 1830

Prose stories titled ‘The New Children’s Friend: A collection of small tales for the use of Young Readers’ by Mary Cowden Clarke (signed Mary Victoria Clarke).

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untitled watercolour [portrait of a young child]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour and pencil sketch of a young child by Edward Petre Novello. The child appears to be climbing over a stile. It is likely that the paper was torn from a sketchbook.

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untitled watercolour [adult and child in an interior]

c. 1830

Undated watercolour of an adult and child in an interior by Edward Petre Novello, mounted on paper. The adult figure is seated and wearing a black dress, with lighter-coloured collar and cuffs. The ch...

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Novello family baptism records

1810-1894

Official extracts from baptism records with the dates of birth and baptism of the children of Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello, including those who did not survive into adulthood. The children were ba...

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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...

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