- Butler/Section 10 (X)/2/1/6
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Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Small head-and-shoulders portrait of Hans Faesch as a boy [about age 16?]. Taken by C. Ruf of Basel. Labelled on verso by Henry Festing Jones.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Small head-and-shoulders portrait of Hans Faesch as a boy [about age 16?]. Taken by C. Ruf of Basel. Labelled on verso by Henry Festing Jones.
'Cavaliere Biagio Ingroja of Calatafimi'
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Small head-and-shoulders portrait of Biagio Ingroja, taken by Domenico di Lorenzo of Calatafimi. Two copies; one signed by the sitter.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Wooden table-top sloping desk, measuring 46 x 32 x 8 cms when folded flat. [This is the sloping desk Butler used to write on in Clifford's Inn; see note in Henry Festing Jones's catalogue, p.55.]
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Wooden chair with cane seat, upholstered arms and casters on feet. A brass plaque mounted on the seat front reads 'Samuel Butler's Chair 1835-1902. Gift of Jonathan Cape Limited 1967.'
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
12.5 cm-diameter brass bowl, brought back from India by Edward Festing Jones. [See note in Henry Festing Jones's catalogue of the Butler Collection, p.57.]
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Painted ceramic wall-hanging, measuring approx. 23.5 cm high, with a relief depicting the veiled head of the Madonna, and a protruding well designed to hold a small volume of water.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Tin paint box, measuring 11 x 6 x 2 cms, manufactured by James Tillyer of 321 Oxford Street, containing used watercolour paint blocks.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Set of wooden handles and webbing, used for carrying books.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Fragment of a Greek vase, enclosed in the souvenir cigarette case [XI/8/8.1]. The fragement is painted on both sides. A label stuck on one side, written in Butler's hand, reads: 'bit of Gr: Vase found among debris under the site of the Temple of Venus on Mt. Eryx. S.B Given me by Bruno Flury'.
Part of Samuel Butler Collection
Snuffbox, measuring 6 x 4 x 2 cms, made from horn and tortoiseshell, and acquired in Palermo.