1811.] Mt\ Foshrookcs Remarks on the Townley Statues, 
In my next I shall endeavour to point 
out some still more important effects of 
the policy, which antient Rome thought 
fit to adopt, in order, by debasing the 
mind and weakening the national and phy. 
sical powers of the German, to complete 
the enlargement of his country and to 
perpetuate its subjugation, Tlie failure 
of this design, and the consequences 
which that failure entailed, will then lead 
us to consider the new character of this 
Germans, as conquerors in their turn. 
LirsiEKSis, 
jpor the Monthli/ Magazine. 
BEMARKS on the TOWNLEY STATUES, hi 
the BRITISH MUSEUM. Bij the liev. 
THOMAS DUDLEY EOSBROOKE, M. A. 
F. A. S. 
(Tenth and last roonif concluded.) 
O. 36. A head of u Muscj croicned 
with laurel. Pimrnutus (r/e/lafwr. 
JJeor. c. 14. p. 161) gives them crowns of 
palm. Mr. Dallawav says (Arts, S03) 
that Thalia has usually a wreath of ivy. 
In the Muses of Maffei, Clio and Terpsi¬ 
chore are crowned with laurel; Euterpe, 
Melpomene, and Erato, with flowers, 
i^pollo, and the divinities which presided 
over the liberal arts, were crowned with 
laurel, in order to show that vvorks of 
genius were consecrated to immortality, 
of which the laurel, as being an ever¬ 
green, was the symbol. The plant was 
thought also to communicate the spirit 
of prophecy and poetic fire, whence 
poets were crowmed with it in the Py¬ 
thian games. Thus Mongez : but the mi- 
litarp laurel was derived from different 
principles; from Apollo or Liber; one, 
god of weapons; tlie other, of triumphs. 
TertuU, (de coron.)p. 1^8. Ed. Rigalt^ 
w'here, and in other writers, the reason of 
this crown in inferior cases. The primi¬ 
tive Christians put an end to the prac¬ 
tice. “Pardon us,'' says Minucius Fe¬ 
lix, (c. 33^ “ because we do not crown 
the head." 
No. 37. A syyiall hast of Antoninus 
Pius, the head onfi/ antique. His por¬ 
traits are common, in various forms. 
No. 38. A head of a. female child. 
The hair is divided into plaits, ychich are. 
tzcisle.d into a. knot, on the hack part of 
the head. Some, af the red paint, uyifh 
which the hair was ancienllp coloured, is 
still visible. It has been obsei ved that 
young girls have the hair distinguished by 
a knot, upon the top or back part of the 
liearl, while women commonly have it 
fastened upon the nape in a single tress, 
which floats upon the shoulders. How¬ 
ever true this may be in general; and 
this fashion called cori/mbus, or cori/mhion, 
is exclusively applied to girls by Winc- 
kelmann; yet Etra mother of Theseus 
so appears drest in a basso-relievo of 
the villa Albani, published by himself; 
and it also occurs in a Helen, If 
6gvc? be applicable to young.as \vc4l 
‘as girls, the passage of Pausanias, {Eescr. 
of Polignotus in Fhocid,) upon which he 
relied, has misled him. Mr. Dallaway 
{Arts, 247,) has given ns the following 
rule. “ The double knot on the crown 
of the head, when pointing towards ths 
ears, is appropriate to Diana, and the 
symbol of virginity." On many statues 
of Venus may be seen the hair collected 
in a double knot, but in every instance 
pointing to the fore and back part of the 
head. Winckelmann mentions several 
statues with the hair coloured red, of 
which see Pirn. xv. 22. ; that of the 
Wnus de Medicis was a well known 
bad taste, which I merely mention, be¬ 
cause it occurs in the efligies of our King 
Edward 11. in Gloucester cathedral, and 
w as common in angels, Sec. in the mid¬ 
dle asjes. 
No. 39*. A small scenic Figure, silting 
on a square plinth : the face is covered 
with a comic musk. The hideous effect 
ot thejnouth is indeed, hideous. In Maf¬ 
fei i.s a Love wiih a huge mask, the 
miiutb of wlvicl) is so large, tliat the 
complete face oftheLoveafjptars through 
it. d'here is room to think that the 
present figure is not at all applicable to 
the drama. The ancients delighted in 
exhibiting Loves and children in sportive 
attitudes. Hideous masks were used in 
the feasts of Bacchus, funeral pomps, 
&c. Some of these ma.^ks, and those 
who wore them, w/ere called Manduci 
and Manducones, and so ugly, that, ac¬ 
cording to Suetonius, children were much 
affrighted by them ; and mothers convert¬ 
ed them into buff a-boos. Possibly the 
sculptor here iuteuded no more than 
what is still usual with our children, 
making a hideous face, and crying boh, 
of which see Mr. Douce, on Shakespeare, 
i, 328. ii. 146. This opinion is given too 
wnth more confidence, because Winc- 
kelman mentions a child at the Villa 
Negroni, mounted upon a tiger, and ac¬ 
companied by two Loves, one of whom is 
trifing la frighten the other zvilli a ynask. 
No. 40. A Head()f a Child. 
No. 41. A Head, appuremlJy of a. 
Trumpeter. This is not uncommon. 
No. 42. A Head of one of the Dioscuri, 
The Dioscuri cannot be mistaken, on ac¬ 
count 
