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Travel diary from Paris
10-17 Aug 1829
Three unbound notebooks from Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello's travels in Europe in July and August 1829. The notes record their time in Paris between 10 and 17 August 1829.
Sketches after the antique [Minerva, Paris and Sappho]
c. 1832
Undated pencil and wash sketches after antique sculptures, likely copied from plaster casts as part of Emma Aloysia Novello's artistic training. Three busts are depictied, which are labelled: 'Minerva...
Sketches after the antique [Paris, Niobe and Grecian Head]
c. 1832
Undated pencil sketch after an antique sculpture, likely copied from plaster casts as part of Emma Aloysia Novello's artistic training. The bust at the top left is labelled 'Paris'; the head of the le...
Travel diary from Vienna, Salzburg, Paris and Châlons-sur-Marne
30 Jul-9 Aug 1829
Five unbound notebooks from Vincent and Mary Sabilla Novello's travels in Europe in July and August 1829. The notes record their departure from Vienna, journey to Salzburg, second visit to Salzburg, j...
Contracts to sing in Italy, France and Spain
1849-1852
6 contracts for Clara Anastasia Novello to sing in Rome, Florence, Milan, Paris and Madrid between 1849 and 1852, written in Italian.
Crowther, John to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred
9 Nov 1835
Letter from John Crowther to (Joseph) Alfred Novello, dated 9 November 1835. The letter contains costs for engraving and printing in Paris.
Sketch after Peter Paul Rubens
c. 1830
Undated pencil, ink and wash sketch by Edward Petre Novello after a detail Peter Paul Rubens' 'The Arrival of Marie de' Medici at Marseille on 3 November 1600' at the Musée du Louvre in Paris.
Drawing titled 'La curiosité'
c. 1850
Undated mounted pencil on paper drawing titled 'La curiosité', with a figure revealing a canvas on an easel and a copy of the Venus de Milo on the right, by Emma Aloysia Novello. The drawing appears ...
Sketch of Charles Humann
c. 1830
Undated pencil portrait of Charles Humann, attributed to Edward Petre Novello. The sitter wears a jacket and dark cravat. An inscription in pencil in a later hand on the reverse notes that Humann had ...
Mary Sabilla Novello's travel diary from 1829 to 1832
1829-1832
Mary Sabilla Novello's travel diary from 1829-1832, which describes her and her husband Vincent Novello's journey to Salzburg, Vienna and Paris in the summer of 1829, with anecdotes about Mozart and B...
Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria to Novello, (Mary) Sabilla
10 Aug 1875
Handwritten letter from Mary Cowden Clarke to her sister (Mary) Sabilla Novello, discussing a mutual acquaintance and her choice of a professional position in London or Paris. She passes on praise for...
Drawing after Annibale Carracci's 'The Silence'
c. 1840
A pencil drawings of the Madonna and infant Jesus alongside the infant John the Baptist, after a painting known as 'The Silence' Annibale Carracci. An incription in ink at the bottom records that the ...