Identity area
Reference code
Butler/Section 1 (I)/Pictures/65
Unique identifier
GB 275 Butler/Section 1 (I)/Pictures/65
Title
'Jones's chambers in Staple Inn, Holborn', by Samuel Butler
Date(s)
- 1899 (Creation)
Level of description
File
Extent and medium
1 item paper
Context area
Name of creator
Repository
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Watercolour on paper (43 x 51.5 cm). Mounted and framed. Showing an armchair and part of the fireplace. [No. 65 in Henry Festing Jones's 1921 catalogue: 'In these rooms Butler nearly always spent his evenings from 1893, when I moved into them, until the end of his life. The frames of these pictures [this and the following item] are veneered with oak from the Hall of Staple Inn, and into each are inserted two buttons showing the wool-pack, the badge of theInn, which is said to be named from the Wool-Staplers.']