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Total number of records: 345

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items335
Objects5
Archives4
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History76
Brotherton Collection49
Herbert Read Collection30
Leeds Russian Archive21
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection10
Art and Antique Market5
LGBTQ5
English Literature1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
decorative arts345
arts decoratifs100
furniture65
architecture, georgian61
decoration and ornament60
meubles53
architecture35
art objects34
decoration et ornement32
art31

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
England89
Ireland29
Great Britain22
Europe21
France8
Asia3
London, United Kingdom3
United States3
Bath (England)2
China2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)246
Georgian Group (London, England)33
Decorative Arts Society 1850--The Present32
Irish Georgian Society28
Sotheby'S (Firm)26
Christie, Manson & Woods15
Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)13
So︠I︡Uz Khudozhnikov Sssr12
Victoria and Albert Museum11
Waring, J B (1823-1875)10

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17002
From 180049
From 1900195
From 200044

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17991
Up to 189949
Up to 1999195
Up to latest45

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NOVELLO, Clara Anastasia

1838-1910

Material related to the soprano singer Clara Anastasia Novello, including a gift presented to her; notes, manuscripts and partial typescripts for 'Clara Novello's Reminiscences' published in 1910; hon...

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Gifts

1838

Imitation inlaid stone panel, painted on wood possibly over gesso, painted for Clara Novello by Rev. Pigno of the Spanish Place Chapel, London.

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Stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello

c. 1865

Thirteen photographs of stucco decoration in the music room at Villa Novello in Genoa. An inscription in a later hand on the original enclosure notes that the decoration was in place when (Joseph) Alf...

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Watercolours

c. 1830

Watercolours on paper by Edward Petre Novello, representing biblical, literary and mythological narratives, in addition to family portraits of his mother Mary Sabilla Novello, sister Clara Anastasia N...

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Ernest Gimson : his life & work

Gimson, Ernest (1864-1919); Lethaby, W R (1857-1931); Powell, Alfred H; Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur (1876-1938); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Shakespeare Head Press

1924

"The drawings in the text... are all by F.L. Griggs ... except that of the cottage at Pinbury Park, which is by Alfred H. Powell"--Page 33. Limited edition of 550 copies. Leeds University Library ...

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Folk art of Europe

Bossert, Helmuth Theodor (1889-1961)

1954

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Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International exhibition, 1862 (v.1)

Waring, J B (1823-1875); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1863

Added title page, illuminated.

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Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International exhibition, 1862 (v.2)

Waring, J B (1823-1875); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1863

Added title page, illuminated.

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Masterpieces of industrial art & sculpture at the International exhibition, 1862 (v.3)

Waring, J B (1823-1875); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1863

Added title page, illuminated.

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Chemical essays : principally relating to the arts and manufactures of the British Dominions (v.1)

Parkes, Samuel (1759-1825)

1815

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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The industry of all nations, 1851 : the Art journal illustrated catalogue

Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

[1851]

Engraved title-page.

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