The Samuel Butler Collection at Saint John's College, Cambridge / A Catalogue and a Commentary

by Henry Festing Jones; A. T. Bartholomew

SAMUEL BUTLER

58. Oil Painting: Edward James Jones.

Inscribed thus: “Portrait of E. J. Jones, Esq., of the Indian Geological Survey, Aet. Suae 24, painted by S. Butler, November, 1883.” The date is not clearly written, but it must be 1883, because my brother Edward, born 5th September, 1859, was twenty-four in 1883, and in November 1883 he went to Calcutta, having obtained an appointment on the Geological Survey. Butler painted the portrait just before he started.

59. Oil Painting: Chiavenna. 1887.

It looks in some lights like 1881, but in other lights 1887, and it must be 1887. Butler did not go abroad in 1881 and he was at Chiavenna in 1887. This is one of the pictures given by Alfred.