Artist’s equipment
Samuel Butler’s sketching portfolio, paint brushes and tin paint box containing used watercolours. His camping-stool, used for sketching in the field, is also in the collection.
Sometimes I find myself painting almost very well, and then I make horrid failures … I work without interruption and very hard: my average is fully 7 hours a day at painting independently of music – and writing. – Samuel Butler, in a letter of 28 February 1867