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Total number of records: 52

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Archives49
Objects3

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Novello Cowden Clarke Collection52
Brotherton Collection46

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portraits16
drawing15
photographs12
family11
photography11
letter writing9
painting8
art education7
sculpture7
music publishing6

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London, United Kingdom12
Genoa, Italy9
Florence, Italy2
Manchester, United Kingdom2
Paris, France2
Turin, Italy2
Birmingham, United Kingdom1
Cambirdge, United Kingdom1
Fermo, Italy1
Rome1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Cowden Clarke, Mary Victoria3
Alf1
Clarke, Charles Cowden1
Collier, John Payne1
Cowper, James1
Giuseppe1
Hartel, Gottfried Christoph1
Joseph1
Moore, R.1
Most, W.1

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From 180048
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Up to 19994

Archive Item

A Collection of Dances

1815

One volume of manuscript music bound in brown leather, titled 'A Collection of Dances, Composed for his Children by V. Novello'. Sold by Cabusac & Sons, 196 Strand, London. Presented to Porzia Gigliuc...

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Novello, Vincent to [unidentified]

c. 1825

Draft undated handwritten letter from Vincent Novello to an unidentified sender, discussing a visit to the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge to see their collection of manuscript music and the publicati...

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Archive Sub-series

Press cuttings

c. 1850

Press cuttings collected by and relating to the Novello Cowden Clarke family and their wider literary circle.

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Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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Draft cover design for Bluebeard's Widow

c. 1876

Draft cover design for 'Bluebeard's Widow and her Sister Anne. Their History: collected from Mendacious Chronicles' written in pencil on graph paper, with a sketches of a hand holding a set of cards a...

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Photograph of a portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke by Emily Macirone

c. 1864

Black and white photograph of a watercolour portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke by Emily Macirone. She is depicted wearing a brooch that is also in the collection. The original portrait is in the collectio...

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Carte de visite portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke by Emily Macirone

1867

Black and white carte de visite by Lodovico Tuminello of Turin, of a watercolour portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke by Emily 'Minnie' Macirone. She is depicted wearing a brooch that is also in the collect...

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Drawings and watercolours

c. 1800-1900

Drawings and watercolours in the Novello family collection, by members of the family and their wider social circle. Includes portraits, landscapes, streetscapes, figures and preparatory studies.

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Carte de visite portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke by Emily Macirone

1864

Black and white carte de visite by Lodovico Tuminello of Turin, of a watercolour portrait of Mary Cowden Clarke by Emily 'Minnie' Macirone. She is depicted wearing a brooch that is also in the collect...

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Drawings

1840-1877

Eight sketches of costume of various periods. A collection of 119 drawings and tracings, including sets of illustrations for her books ‘Bluebeard’s Widow’ and ‘Hoho Haha’.

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Ex libris plates

c. 1850

Two examples of Charles Cowden Clarke's ex libris plates pasted on paper and likely separated from books in his collection. It uses an oak and acorn motif and the Latin motto 'Placidam sub Libertate q...

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Translated transcription

Oct 1954

Handwritten transcribed extracts from two of Giuseppe 'Joseph' Novello's notebooks by Donna Nerina Medici di Marignano Gigliucci, one of the donors of the collection, translated into English.

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