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Total number of records: 13

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection13
Brotherton Collection11

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music4
drawing3
family3
letter writing3
painting3
portraits3
finance2
health2
home2
landscape2

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London, United Kingdom5
Nice, France5
Florence, Italy2
Rome, Italy2
Fermo, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
Madrid, Spain1
Milan, Italy1
Paris, France1

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Novello, John Alfred1
Novello, Joseph Alfred1
Novello, Mary Sabilla (Nee Hehl, Mrs Vincent Novello)1
Novello, Vincent1

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From 17001
From 180012

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Up to 189912
Up to 19991

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Vincent Novello's passport

23 Aug 1849

Passport issued to Vincent Novello by the Consul General of Sardinia in London, dated 23 August 1849.

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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.

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Untitled Volume of MSS Music

1846-1849

One volume of untitled manuscript music with brown marbled covers and a black leather spine, containing sacred music composed by Vincent Novello between 1846 and 1849.

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Fragment addressed to Mary Cowden Clarke at Craven Hill Cottage

c. 1847-1849

Fragment of an envelope with Mary Cowden Clarke's address, given as Craven Hill Cottage, Bayswater, with a Kensington post mark. Possibly from Leigh Hunt. The family lived at this address between 1847...

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Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Plans and photographs of Villa Quaglia in Nice, now in France and then part of Italy. Vincent Novello retired there in 1849 and was joined by his daughter and son-in-law Mary and Charles Cowden Clarke...

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Photographs of Villa Quaglia

c. 1855

Four mounted photographs of the exterior of Villa Quaglia in Nice, including the garden and wider landscape. Members of the Novello Cowden Clarke family lived there from 1849 to 1861. Each photograph ...

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Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

c. 1850

Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello seated with her hands in her lap. An inscription written in Italian in pencil in a later hand suggests that the portrait was made by Signorina...

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BC MS NCC/13/9/15 Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello
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Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

c. 1850

Pencil and watercolour portrait of (Mary) Sabilla Novello seated with her hands in her lap. She is pictured wearing a ring and bracelet on her proper left hand. The reverse contains pencil sketches of...

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Lithograph of (Mary) Sabilla Novello

1847

Lithograph of (Mary) Sabilla Novello by Lowes Cato Dickinson, printed by Charles Joseph Hullmandel and published by Dickinson & Son, 114 New Bond Street and J.A. [Joseph Alfred] Novello of 69 Dean Str...

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Novello, Vincent to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1849-1854

Two handwritten letters from Vincent Novello to his son (Joseph) Alfred Novello. The letter dated 16 January 1849 requests that money be sent to his wife Mary Sabilla Novello and communicates his anno...

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Transcribed reviews of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's vocal performance

1843

Transcribed review of (Mary) Sabilla Novello's vocal performance at Mr. Bendict's Benefit at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, on 17 July 1843, at which her sister Clara Anastasia Novello also sang. T...

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Novello, Mary Sabilla (née Hehl) to Novello, (Joseph) Alfred

1839-1849

Handwritten letters from Mary Sabilla Novello to her son (Joseph) Alfred Novello. The letter dated 21 March [no year, likely 1839] describes a concert she attended, likely with her daughter Clara A...

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