Cast Gallery catalogue number: C230

Aphrodite, semi-draped, with left arm raised and right arm held across her body. She may have had a mirror in her left hand.

• Plaster cast: Height: 2.14m.
• Copy of a marble statue.
• The statue:
  • is known as the Townley Venus.
  • dates from the Roman period and may be a version of an earlier work.
  • was found at Ostia by Gavin Hamilton in 1775.
  • was formerly in the Townley Collection.
  • is now in London, British Museum, 1574.