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Total number of records: 43

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives41
Books and printed items2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection22
Brotherton Collection20
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive19
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
drawing43
letter writing13
painting13
art education11
family9
gift giving9
exhibitions5
childhood4
photographs4
poetry4

Top 10: Place

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London, United Kingdom25
Genoa, Italy4
Hastings, United Kingdom4
Harrogate, United Kingdom3
Rome, Italy2
Bedford, United Kingdom1
Berlin (Germany)1
Bonnelles, France1
Bristol, United Kingdom1
Deal, United Kingdom1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Christ Church (University of Oxford)2
Matthiesen Gallery2
Christie, Alexander1
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1

Count of Earliest date

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From 17001
From 180021
From 190021

Count of Latest date

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Up to 189919
Up to 199924

Archive Item

Notes on drawing

c. 1965

Undated handwritten notes on drawing in Maurice de Sausmarez's hand, with a name and address.

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Sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello, 1841

1841

A sketchbook belonging to (Mary) Sabilla Novello contained pencil sketches of portraits, characters, flowers and landscapes, some of which are dated 1841. The sketchbook has a maroon leather spine wit...

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Portraits by

1860-1861

Two pencil on paper portraits drawn by Emma Clara Serle.

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Sketchbook with green cover

c. 1829

Sketchbook belonging to Edward Petre Novello, the pages of which are watermarked 1829. It has green covers and a green leather spine and corners. An inscription on the inside cover records that it was...

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Maurice de Sausmarez to Jeremy Rees

5 Mar 1969

Copy of a typewritten letter from Maurice de Sausmarez to Jeremy Rees, the founder and Director of the Arnolfini Centre for the Contemporary Arts in Bristol. De Sausmarez encloses a copy of his forwar...

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Sketchbooks

1859-1868

Sketchbook containing drawings, caricatures and sketches of various members of the Novello and Gigliucci families by sisters Clara, Emma and (Mary) Sabilla Novello and others, in various locations in ...

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Sketch of trees

c. 1830

Undated pencil sketch of a group of trees, possibly in Hastings, with a small figure at the bottom right by Edward Petre Novello, with an inscription in a later hand at the bottom noting that they wer...

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Ministry of Information to Maurice de Sausmarez

13 Oct 1943

Typewritten letter from the Ministry of Information to Maurice de Sausmarez, with details of his sketching permit.

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Students and student work

c. 1947-1968

36 black and white and colour photographs and 8 negatives featuring art students and their work, including a photograph of two students paintings at Leeds College of Art, undated examples of Basic Des...

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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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