A catalogue of sculpture in the Department of ... - Warburg Institute

4 CATALOGUE OF SCULPTURE.William Hamilton (1730-1803), British Ambassador atNaples, 1764-1800. The vases formed the most impoi'tantsection, but the collection also contained several sculpturesin the round and in relief.^ On the other hand a squarealtar with reliefs ^ was presented by Sir W. Hamilton in1776, and perhaps also a head of Heracles.^ A colossalfoot of Apollo* was given in 1784.In 1780 an interesting relief, No. 750, was presentedby Sir Joseph Banks, and Col.Lovat (1736-1815).the Hon. A. C. Fraser, ofSir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), traveller,botanist, and President of the Royal Society, was agreat benefactor to the Library and Botanical collections,but his gifts of sculpture were limited to this relief, and toa relief representing Jupiter and Ceres, presented in 1809.Charles Townley gave two marble fountains^ in 1786,but his main collections were not added tothe Museumtill after his death. A valuable gift was received fromthe Society of Dilettanti, about 1795, consisting of thesculptures and inscriptionscollected by the expedition toIonia which had been sent out by that Society in 17G4,under the direction of Dr. Eichard Chandler.The collectionincluded several Attic reliefs,® and some importantinscriptions, among them the well-known report on theprogress of the Erechtheion.^In 1870 the same Societypresented the fruits of its excavations at Priene, conductedby Mr. R. P. Pullan.Two Roman portrait statues, of inferior merit, which hadpassed into the hands of the British at the Capitulation of'Nos. 774, 780 ;Graeco-Roman Guide, I., No. 140b.^Grxco-Roman Guide, II., No. 53. ' Mus. Marbles, I., pi. 11.*Grasco-Iioinan Guide, II., No. 117.* Grxco- Roman Guide, II., Nos. 45, 61. « Nos. fi05, 637, 642.'Greek Inscriptions in Brit. Mus., No. XXXV.