ROOM I.] 
TERRACOTTAS. 
135 
GALLERY OF ANTIQUITIES* 
FIRST ROOM. 
TERRACOTTAS. 
Over the door which fronts the entrance into this 
room, is a bust of Charles Towneley, Esq., to whose pro¬ 
found knowledge of ancient Sculpture, and zeal in the 
acquisition of the finest specimens of it, the nation is 
indebted for the formation of a considerable part of the 
splendid collection of Terracottas and Marbles con¬ 
tained in this Gallery, The bust was presented by his 
uncle, John Towneley, Esq. It is executed in marble by 
Mr. Nollekens. 
No. 1. A female statue, probably one of the Muses, 
PL III. 
No. 2. An Amphora. 
No. 3. A terminal head of the bearded Bacchus. 
PL XXXVII. f. 75. 
No. 4. A bas-relief, representing a combat between 
two Amazons and two Griffins. PL iv. f. 4. 
No. 5. Ditto, representing the head of a Triton, on 
each side of which is a Cupid riding on a dolphin. 
PL IV. f. 5. 
No. 6. Ditto, representing a group of Silenus and 
Cupid, before whom is a female Bacchante dancing, and 
playing on the tambourin. PL v. 
No. 7. Ditto, representing an engagement be¬ 
tween one of the Arimaspi and a Griffin; on the left 
of the combatants is the bust of an athletic figure, armed 
with a battle-axe. PL vi. f. 7- 
No. 8. Ditto, intended by the artist as a companion 
to No. 7, and to be joined to it in the manner in which 
it is here seen. The subject in both pieces is precisely 
the same: the bust, however, in this piece is placed on 
* All the articles in the following catalogue of antiquities, unless where 
it is otherwise specified, belonged to the collection of the late Chartes 
Towneley, Esq. More ample descriptions, with Plates, of the antiquities 
contained in the British Museum, are in the course of publication; and 
references to the six parts already published are affixed to those articles 
which have been therein engraved. 
