In the next year, 1776, Mr. TOWNELEY acquired one of the chiefest glories of his gallery, the _Venus_ with drapery. This also was found at Ostia, in the ruins of the Baths of Claudius. But that superb statue would not have left Rome had not its happy purchaser made, for once, a venial deflection from the honourable motto just adverted to. The figure was found in two severed portions, and care was taken to show them, quite separately, to the authorities concerned in granting facilities for their removal. The same excavation yielded to the Towneley Collection the statue of _Thalia_. From the Villa Casali on the Esquiline were obtained the terminal head of _Epicurus_, and the bust thought to be that of _Domitia_. The bust of _Sophocles_ was found near Genzano; that of _Trajan_, in the Campagna; that of _Septimius Severus_, on the Palatine, and that of _Caracalla_ on the Esquiline. A curious cylindrical fountain (figured in _A. M._, i, § 10) was found between Tivoli and Præneste, and the fine representation in low relief of a _Bacchanalian procession_ (_Ib._, part ii) at Civita Vecchia. All these accessions to the Towneley Gallery accrued in 1775 or 1776. Of the date of the Collector’s first return to England with his treasures I have found no record. [Sidenote: THE TOWNELEY GALLERY IN ENGLAND.] But it would seem that nearly all the marbles hitherto enumerated were brought to England in or before the year 1777. The house, in London, in which they were first placed was found to be inadequate to their proper arrangement. Mr. TOWNELEY either built or adapted another house, in Park street, Westminster, expressly for their reception. Here they were seen under favourable circumstances as to light and due ordering. They were made accessible to students with genuine liberality. And few things gave their owner more pleasure than to put his store of knowledge, as well as his store of antiquities, at the service of those who wished to profit by them. He did so genially, unostentatiously, and with the discriminating tact which marked the high-bred gentleman, as well as the enthusiastic Collector.