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Total number of records: 75

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives68
Objects5
Art items2

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection75
Brotherton Collection69

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
drawing22
art education17
letter writing15
sculpture15
music9
photographs9
classical music7
theatre7
travel6
composers5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom18
Genoa, Italy7
Vienna, Austria5
Nice, France3
Salzburg, Austria3
Paris, France2
Augsburg, Germany1
Boulogne, France1
Enfield, Middlesex1
Fermo, Italy1

Count of People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Cowden Clarke, Charles & Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria1
Hunt, James Henry Leigh1
Novello, Clara1
Novello, Joseph Alfred1
Novello, Vincent1
Whittaker, Charles Gus1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17001
From 180072
From 19001
From 20001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 189972
Up to 19993

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Map of Cheshire and part of Lancashire

c. 1850

Undated printed map of Cheshire and part of Lancashire mounted on cardboard.

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At Parting by Algernon Charles Swinburne

c. 1870

Undated handwritten transcript in an unidentified hand of a poem titled 'At Parting' by Algernon Charles Swinburne.

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Masses in 2, 3 & 4 Parts

No date

One undated volume of sacred music composed by Vincent Novello with faded green marbled covers and a brown leather spine. A gilt and maroon leather label on the front identifes it as 'Choir Copy No. 3...

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'Appearances not Proofs' by Mary Cowden Clarke

c. 1830

A prose story titled 'Appearances not Proofs' by Mary Cowden Clarke, in two parts.

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Maps

c. 1820-1868

Printed maps of London and other parts of the United Kingdom and a map of Greece and the Aegean Sea,

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'The Evil One' by Mary Cowden Clarke

c. 1835

Prose story titled 'The Evil One' by Mary Cowden Clarke, in two parts.

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Sketches after the antique [profiles and eyes]

c. 1832

Undated pencil and wash sketches after antique sculptures, likely copied from plaster casts as part of Emma Aloysia Novello's artistic training. The sheet contains three sketches of parts of the profi...

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Sketch after the antique [Niobe in profile]

c. 1832

Undated pencil sketch after an antique sculpture, likely copied from a plaster casts as part of Emma Aloysia Novello's artistic training. The drawing is part of the sculpture Niobe and her Youngest Da...

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Memorandum to look through a packet

1881

Memorandum to look through a packet, dated 1881. Written on a fragment of pink card with part of an advertisement in Italian on the reverse.

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J[?] to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

c. 1850

Undated handwritten letter from an unidentified sender to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, complaining about the range of a published tenor part.

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Original slips for 'The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare'

c. 1835

Original slips for 'The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare' in Mary Cowden Clarke's hand, comprising part of the letters L, M, and R.

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Dickens, Charles to Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria

1 Jul 1848

Handwritten letter from Charles Dickens to Mary Cowden Clarke, enclosing the part he spoke of and requesting that she meet the rest of the cast of the play.

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