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Brotherton Collection14
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection14
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive10

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portraits24
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photography10
works of art6
family5
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Genoa, Italy4
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Photographic portrait [person in a suit]

c. 1950

Undated black and white portrait photograph of a person with short white hair, wearing a suit, white shirt and tie. The sitter is unidentifed and there are no inscriptions.

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Portrait by Anne Gliddon

7 Jul 1842

Pencil and white crayon portrait of an unidentified standing figure by Anne Gliddon.

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Photographic portrait [person in a dress]

c. 1950

Undated black and white portrait photograph of a person with white hair, wearing a dark pleated dress with a necklace and brooch. The sitter is unidentifed and an inscription in ink on the reverse rea...

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Oil portrait of Mary Sabilla Novello

c. 1850

Oil painting of Mary Sabilla Novello by an unknown artist, possibly her daughter Emma Aloysia Novello. In a gilt gesso frame with losses to the edges. The sitter is depicted in a dark coloured dress w...

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F.H. Roithwood to Maurice de Sausmarez

1958-1966

Three typewritten letters from F.H. Roithwood of British Belting & Asbestos Ltd. to Maurice de Sausmarez, providing black and white and colour photographic reproductions of an unspecified portrait by ...

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Reverse silhouette of Mary Sabilla Novello

c. 1820

Glazed and framed reverse silhouette of Mary Sabilla Novello by Marianne Kent, the wife of Leigh Hunt. The colour of the background that defines the silhouette is blue, with a note below recording the...

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Case for cartes de visite

c. 1870

White cardboard case for cartes de visite by the photographers G.B. Sciutto & Co. of Genoa, Italy. Inscribed in ink on the reverse noting that the case contained family portraits of (Mary) Sabilla Nov...

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Photograph of a portrait of Betsy Hill as a baby

c. 1950

Undated modern black and white photographic reproduction of a painted portrait of Betsy Hill as a baby, with a cat by her side. An inscription on the reverse notes that the original portrait, by an un...

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Watercolour sketch of a self-portrait

c. 1827

Watercolour and pencil sketch of a self-portrait by Edward Petre Novello, pictured from the shoulders up wearing a white shirt and dark blue waistcoat. Inscriptions in pencil at the bottom suggest tha...

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Graham Kirk to Maurice de Sausmarez

8 Jun 1963

Typewritten invoice from Graham Kirk to Maurice de Sausmarez for taking a photograph of a portrait by de Sausmarez and supplying one black and white print and one 35mm transparency. A handwritten note...

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BC MS NCC/7/8/2 Carte de visite of (Joseph) Alfred Novello
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Carte de visite of (Joseph) Alfred Novello

c. 1870

Undated carte de visite of (Joseph) Alfred Novello in an oval format. Novello is wearing a waistcoat and jacket and has a long white beard. The photographic studio was Pescio e Remondini in Genoa, Ita...

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'The Poet's Voice: An appreciative analysis of modern English poetry'

1967

Published copy of the book 'The Poet's Voice: An appreciative analysis of modern English poetry' by James Kirkup, translated by Shōzō Tokunaga, in English and Japanese. Includes a black and white re...

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