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Total number of records: 475

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives277
Books and printed items112
Art items70
Objects16

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection297
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection184
University Art Collection51
Maurice de Sausmarez Archive47
Herbert Read Collection18
Leeds Russian Archive18
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society5
English Literature4
Art and Antique Market2
LGBTQ2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
portraits295
photographs105
portraits, british81
letters69
family56
photography53
drawing43
painting41
miniatures39
men29

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
London, United Kingdom36
Genoa, Italy22
Great Britain14
Leeds, United Kingdom11
England10
Florence, Italy8
Turin, Italy5
Cleckheaton, United Kingdom4
Hull, United Kingdom4
New York, Usa4

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Westoby, Edward33
Hogg, Jabez7
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)6
Lodge, Edmund (1756-1839)6
Keeley, Robert5
National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain)5
Westoby (Attrib.), Edward5
Blaeu, Joan4
Blaeu, Joan (1596-1673)4
Claire Floyd (Exhibitions Officer)4

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From 16003
From 170020
From 1800260
From 1900146
From 20005

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Up to 17994
Up to 1899264
Up to 1999159
Up to latest7

Archive Print Item

Catalogues of portraits at Compton Place and at Buxted Park, in Sussex

Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe Earl of (1846-1907)

[1903]

Title from drop-head title. Catalogues of portraits and engravings at Compton Place, Sussex, and miniatures at Devonshire House, in the possession of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire; the pictures a...

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The English face

Piper, David (1918-1990)

1957

Includes bibliographical references.

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The art of portrait painting

Collier, John (1850-1934)

1905

Coloured plates accompanied by leaves with descriptive letterpress.

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Men I have painted

Hamilton, John McLure (1853-)

[1921]

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Archive Print Item
Drawing of a woman
Drawing

Drawing of a woman

Hamnett, Nina (1890-1956)

June 1944

Frame Type - original frame

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Sculpture

Tiger King ("Man of Aran")

Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959)

1933-34

Bronze bust of a male head. Tiger King was the hero of Robert Flaherty's documentary film 'Man of Aran'.

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Sculpture

Bust of James Walter McLeod

Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959)

c. 1952

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Sculpture

Portrait bust of Albert Einstein

Epstein, Jacob (1880-1959)

1933

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Archive File

Portraits of

c. 1830

Miniature portrait of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello in the form of a glazed pendant.

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Archive Art Item

Reverse silhouette of Mary Sabilla Novello

c. 1820

Glazed and framed reverse silhouette of Mary Sabilla Novello by Marianne Kent, the wife of Leigh Hunt. The colour of the background that defines the silhouette is blue, with a note below recording the...

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F.H. Roithwood to Maurice de Sausmarez

22 Sep 1958

Typewritten letter from F.H. Roithwood of Scandinavia Mills in Cleckheaton, to Maurice de Sausmarez, noting how much de Sausmarez's portrait of Sir William Fenton had been enjoyed and appreciated by t...

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