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Oil on canvas (17 x 24 cm). Framed. [No. 25 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/from-san-nicolao-mendrisio-139369

Oil on canvas. Framed. [No. 23 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: 'Butler made three oil sketches at Varallo all the same size, about 16 x 20. One is the washing place outside the town. The other two were both done in the Piazza on the Sacro Monte. One was given to the Municipio of Varallo-Sesia; the other to the avvocato Francesco Negri of Casale-Monferrato.'] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/varallo-sesia-the-washing-place-146365

Oil on canvas. Framed (34 x 27 cm). [No. 18 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/the-valle-di-sambuco-fusio-139373

Oil on canvas (44.4 x 55.8 cm). Framed. [No. 12 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: I showed this to Gaetano Meo, and he remembered that the man was Calarossi, a model, whose brother went to Paris and became known as the proprietor of a studio there. The woman, he said, was Maria, another model. The background is Dieppe. I suppose that Butler did this study in the autumn of 1866, using nos. 10 and 11, the watercolours of Dieppe, or some other sketch made on the spot, for the background. The idea was to make portraits of two heads with a landscape background in the manner of Giovanni Bellini.'] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/two-heads-after-bellini-139344

Oil on canvas. Framed (39.3 x 49.5 cm). Inscribed by Samuel Butler: 'Family Prayers - I did this in 1864, and if I had gone on doing things out of my own head instead of making studies, I shd have been all right SB'. [No. 6 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.] View a digital image of this painting at: https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/family-prayers-139359

Pencil on paper (11 x 13 cm; in a mount with the preceding item, 32 x 46 cm). Sketched on the end of a sheet from a sale catalogue. Inscribed by Butler: 'Handel when a boy - From and old picture sold at Puttick & Simpson's & sketched by me while on view.' [No. 40 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue.]

Printed volumes owned by Samuel Butler. Butler believed he possessed 'the smallest library of any man in London who is by way of being literary' (letter to Robert Bridges, 6 February 1900). In his will he bequeathed his book collection to his nephew, Henry Thomas Butler, who gave it to Henry Festing Jones. Some of the volumes were taken by R.A. Streatfeild (Butler's literary executor) and a few were lost in transit; the remainder are in the St John's College collection [see note in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue, p.35]. Shelved volumes in this section are catalogued on iDiscover.

Printed publications, offprints and papers, and miscellaneous autograph letters and manuscripts, relating to Samuel Butler, his works, interests and acquaintances. Shelved volumes in this section are catalogued on iDiscover.

Printed publications and other material relating to Samuel Butler, his works and interests, and the St John's College collection. Shelved volumes in this section are catalogued on iDiscover.

Autograph manuscripts and correspondence of Samuel Butler. Publications, extracts, papers and correspondence relating to works by and about Samuel Butler. Shelved volumes in this section are catalogued on iDiscover.