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 Athenæum, 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.