Chapter IX: Prints and Photographs

FORMERLY THE PROPERTY OF OR RELATING TO SAMUEL BUTLER

An engraving of "The Fortune Teller," by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

An engraving of "The Woodman," by Gainsborough.

A print of a view of "Clifford's Inn Hall from the Garden." 1800.

A paper about Clifford's Inn, extracted from "Picturesque Views and an Historical Account of the Inns of Court," by Samuel Ireland, published in the year 1800.

An envelope containing prints of the photograph of Butler's Fireplace, 15 Clifford's Inn.

Six boxes of photographic negatives. Portraits and Italian works of art.

Five volumes of prints of snap-shots by Butler.

Photographs illustrating Butler's notions about the Portraits of Gentile and Giovanni Bellini as to which he wrote to the _Athenaeum_, 20 Feb. 1886. (_Memoir_, ch. xxv.)

Photographs to illustrate his notions about the Holbein drawing, "La Danse," dealt with in the article in the _Universal Review_, "L'Affaire Holbein-Rippel." Together with various papers relating to the same matter. This article was not reproduced in _Essays on Life_, _Art and Science_ (afterwards _The Humour of Homer_) because of the trouble of reproducing the illustrations, but it is among the _Universal Review_ articles bound together and included in this catalogue (p. 19).

A print of the great statue of S. Carlo Borromeo, near Arona, called "S. Carlone."

A collection of photographs of Italian pictures, unmounted.

Three large cards with photographs of the fresco by Gaudenzio Ferrari which is in S. Maria delle Grazie at Varallo-Sesia. It is in twenty-one compartments.

Two cards, not so large, with photographs of pictures and frescoes by Gaudenzio. One of these reproduces frescoes and pictures in the Crucifixion Chapel at Varallo. In the left-hand bottom corner is the whole of the fresco in S. Maria delle Grazie showing how the twenty-one compartments are placed. The other card contains Gaudenzio's frescoes in the Church of S. Cristoforo at Vercelli.

A card with five photographs, two of the frescoes at Busto Arsizio near Varese--at least, I think that is where they are. One is "St. John Baptist's head in a charger," the other "The baptism in the Jordan." Butler particularly liked the scratchings of names and dates on the former. The other three photographs are of pictures. The foregoing six cards (three, two and one) used to hang framed in Butler's chambers.

A woman in a black dress from Lima. Used by Butler to make female heads for sale, but he was not successful.

_The Weekly Press_, N.Z., 21st Mar. 1917. Page 26 contains views of Butler's homestead at Mesopotamia.

Two views of Butler's homestead, Mesopotamia, New Zealand, extracted from the _Press_.

A view of the ruins of Hagiar Chem (Haggiar Kim in Malta).

A card with five photographic views. Two are the Garden at Langar. One is at Langar, Mrs. Barratt. Cf. snapshot album, 891, p 27. The remaining two are huts or whares in New Zealand, one being "Whare at Mount Peel Station, Oct. 14."