[3] Both the marble bust and the bronze head have features similar to the marble Head of Constantine the Great (r. 306–337) found on Stonegate, a street in York above the ancient via praetoria thoroughfare of the castra at Eboracum, garrison of the VI Victrix Roman legion from Hadrian's reign.

He paid £168 for the pair, including transport from Livorno, in March the following year, as well as £8/6 (5%) interest on the delay.

[1] Townley annotated his copy of the work of Ennio Quirino Visconti listing the portraits of Hadrian, indicating that he was in possession of this example.

[6] Trajan and Hadrian were provincial Romans from Italica in Hispania Baetica on the Iberian Peninsula.

[6] The exhibition layout alluded to the rumour that Plotina had arranged Hadrian's rise to power.