68. Pen and ink sketch: Trapani and the Islands from Mount Eryx about 1897.
This sketch is reproduced in The Authoress of the Odyssey, ch. ix. He did it to show the situation of Trapani and the Islands with Marettimo “all highest up in the sea.” In the Odyssey Ithaca is “all highest up in the sea,” and Butler supposed that the authoress in so describing it was thinking of Marettimo.
69. Wash drawing: Trapani and the Islands from Mount Eryx about 1898.
He wished to make a more complete version of no. 68, but this was as far as he could get; there was not enough time and there were too many interruptions.
70. Pencil sketch inscribed, “Calatafimi, Sund. May 13th, 1900. 2 hours. Eleven a.m. is the best light.”
I added “S. Butler.” He could not continue because there came on a terrific scirocco which lasted two or three days.
71. Water-colour: Taormina, the Theatre and Etna. 1900.
This shows the fragments of the stones that are strewn about in the orchestra which Butler said were like the fragments of My Duty towards My Neighbour that lay strewn about in his memory. It would take a lot of work to put them all back into their places and reconstruct the original. (Memoir, II. 292.)
72. Water-colour: Siena. 1900.
73. Water-colour: Pisa, inside the top of the Leaning Tower. 1900.