'Rose the model', c. 1865
Rose was a model at Heatherley’s. In his Notebooks Butler commented: ‘Rose, the model, had the finest torso I ever saw. … All the markings which we see in the antique and accept, though we never see them in real life, were not only there but in as full development as I ever saw in the antique… I understood Rose got this wonderful development of arms and torso through turning a sausage machine, from which he seems to have ground beauty into his own body. I suppose he ground his sausages to the Lord.’
This photograph is one of the earliest Butler ever took.