- Butler
- Fonds
- 1728–
The collection includes Butler's books, manuscripts, music, photographs, pictures and drawings, and personal effects.
Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) writer, artist and photographer
The collection includes Butler's books, manuscripts, music, photographs, pictures and drawings, and personal effects.
Butler, Samuel (1835-1902) writer, artist and photographer
Pictures, sketches and drawings by or relating to Samuel Butler
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Paintings and drawings, by Samuel Butler and other artists relating to him. Butler's original drawings for 'Alps and Sanctuaries' (1881) are among the boxed collections.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Drawings and prints of drawings by Samuel Butler, relating to 'Alps and Sanctuaries'.
['S. Ignatius Loyola, from a fresco near Ceres'], by Samuel Butler
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Pencil drawing, mounted and framed (21 x 26 cm). Labelled by Henry Festing Jones: 'The sketch taken on the spot for the illustration in Alps & Sanctuaries.' [See 'Alps and Sanctuaries' (1882), p.210.]
[Two men in the foreground; adult with child in the background], by Samuel Butler [?]
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Pencil drawing, mounted and framed (23 x 31 cm). Possibly a sketch-copy of part of a painting.
[Six drawings in a single frame, including 'Fresco outside chapel of Doero near Mesocco']
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Prints of six drawings for 'Alps and Sanctuaries' on one sheet, mounted and framed (25 x 32.5 cm): 'S. Ignatius Loyola, from a fresco near Ceres' (1882, p.210); 'Study by an Italian Amateur. No. 2' (p.175); 'Main doorway, S. Nicolao' (p.74); 'Fresco outside chapel at Doero near Mesocco' (p.187); 'Piazza at Lanzo' (p.171); and 'Study by an Italian Amateur. No. 1' (p.174).
'Tengia, Ticino' [Tengia No.2]
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Print, on a loose sheet (11 x 17.5 cm), of a drawing for 'Alps and Sanctuaries' ('Tengia No. II', 1882, p.53), with cloud formations drawn in by hand, in pen.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Two prints of 'Tengia, Ticino', for 'Alps and Sanctuaries' (1882, p.53) on one sheet, mounted and framed (28.5 x 24.5 cm). One print is labelled 'No. 14 / Tengia No. 2' in Samuel Butler's hand.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Drawings and prints of drawings, mostly by Samuel Butler, some relating to 'Alps and Sanctuaries'.
[Two drawings documenting exposure times for photographs]
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Two pen and ink drawings (or prints after pen drawings), mounted together and framed (29 x 16.5 cm), showing the development stages of an image of town buildings with a church. Labelled: 'Copper bath half & half May 12 1881 weather average. 20 minutes'; and 'Bath 1/10 acid. May 2 1881 weather average. Zinc. 15 minutes'.