Charles Townley
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Charles Townley FRS was a wealthy English country gentleman, antiquary and collector, a member of the Towneley family. He travelled on three Grand Tours to Italy, buying antique sculpture, vases, coin
Charles Townley, miniature by Josiah Wedgwood
Bust of Charles Townley (1735–1805), by Christopher Hewetson, British Museum
Roman marble copy of Myron's Discobolus. Towneley Marbles, British Museum
The Knuckle Bone Player (Roman c.150AD)
Clytie (Oceanid)
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Clytie or Clytia is a water nymph, daughter of the Titans Oceanus and Tethys in Greek mythology. She is thus one of the 3,000 Oceanid nymphs, and sister to the 3,000 river-gods.
Charles Townley
…boys fighting over a game of knucklebones identified by Johann Joachim Winckelmann as the Astragalizontes by the classical Greek sculptor Polykleitos Bust of Clytie, thought by Townley to be Isis emerging from a sacred lotus Townley Hadrian…
Townley's Clytie
Bust of Clytie, by Hiram Powers, modeled 1865–1867, carved 1873.
Clytie turns into a sunflower as the Sun refuses to look at her, engraving by Abraham van Diepenbeeck.
Clytie Transformed into a Sunflower, Charles de la Fosse, oil on canvas, 1688