The Townley Gallery
The Townley Gallery is a 1836 London catalogue of classical sculpture from the collection of Charles Townley, published by C. Knight with the British Museum. Its engraved plates show Roman marble busts of men and women, with the heads, hairstyles and drapery drawn in fine parallel line. A designer could take from them the crisp hatching and the layered, carved look of stone portraits, along with varied hairstyles such as curled waves, braided coils and turbans.
