Samuel Butler, Rose the model, c.1865. St John’s College, Cambridge. From Butler’s Notebook:
‘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.’
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