It was over one of the gateways of this Castle that Fortune with her Wheel was to appear in a fresco. See no. 19.
HENRY FESTING JONES
54. Oil Painting: View from Butler’s room in Clifford’s Inn showing the tower of the Law Courts. 1882.
Drawn with the camera lucida. Reproduced in the Memoir, ch. xx.
55. Oil Painting: Unfinished sketch-portrait of Butler. 1882
Drawn with the camera lucida. Referred to in the Memoir, I. 135-136, in letters from which extracts are given below.
Miss Savage to Butler.
31st October, 1883: I went to the Fisheries Exhibition last week and spent a rather pleasant day. I was by myself for one thing, and, for another, took great delight in gazing at a life-size model of a sea-captain clad in yellow oil-skins and a Sou’wester. It was executed in that style of art that you so greatly admire in the Italian Churches, and was so good a likeness of you that I think you must have sat for it. The serious occupations of my day were having dinner and tea, and the relaxations, buying shrimps in the fish-market and then giving them to the sea-gulls and cormorants. My most exalted pleasure was to look at your effigy, which I should like to be able to buy, though, as I have not a private chapel in my castle, I hardly know where I could put it if I had it. Upon the whole I enjoyed myself, but I am glad to hear that the Exhibition is to be closed to-day, so that I cannot by any possibility go there again.
Butler to Miss Savage.
5th November, 1883: I believe I am very like a sea-captain. Jones began a likeness of me not long since, which I will show you next time you come and see me, which is also very like a portrait of a sea-captain.