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Brotherton Collection2318
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Herbert Read Collection49
Rudolf Laban Collections25
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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection3
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Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)74
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Nelson, S (1800-1862)45
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Browne, Gordon (1858-1932)38

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Archive Print Item

Benrath : du 14 mars au 10 Avril 1963, Galerie Karl Flinker

Benrath, Frédéric (1930-); Alvard, Julien; Galerie Karl Flinker

[1963]

Exhibition catalogue.

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Title: Psalm L, v.8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 23. Obedience is better than sacrifice

Author: Watts, Isaac

Attribution: Watts; [Bible]

Date(s): 1719 (published)

Manuscript: Lt 24

Contents: Religious poem, paraphrasing verses from Psalm 50.

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Gavazzi's orations : as delivered in the Music-Hall, Sheffield, on the 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th, and 15th November, 1852

Gavazzi, Alessandro (1809-1889)

1852

"Reprinted from the Free Press of Nov. 13th & 20th".

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Floral border and initial (fol. 107v)
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Floral border and initial (fol. 107v)

[ca. 1480-1500]

3-line initial in pink, gold, blue and green, with white penwork decoration, and infilled with a blue leaf. On the left, a column border decorated with flowers, leaves and gold discs with concentric p...

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Initial 'M' (fol. 130r)
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Initial 'M' (fol. 130r)

[ca. 1450-1500]

Initial 'M', halved in red and blue, with a white outline, infilled with curved foliage in blue, green, and red. Pasted in from another (13th-century?) manuscript.

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List of works by Mary Cowden Clarke and Charles Cowden Clarke with printed copies of Shakespeare's coat of arms

1881-1889

Five copies of the printed list of published works by Mary Cowden Clarke and Charles Cowden Clarke with a preface on the spelling of Shakespeare's name by Mary Cowden Clarke. 67 printed copies of elem...

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Sketch after the antique [bust of a bearded river god]

c. 1832

Undated pencil sketch after an antique sculpture, likely copied from a plaster cast as part of Emma Aloysia Novello's artistic training. The bust represented appears to be a variation on a bearded riv...

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