Terracotta model for the Trinity bust. This grand work is one of the models referred to in the Introduction as coming from Roubiliac's studio to the Museum after his death on January 11th, 1762. The sculptor's friend Dr Maty, then Sub-Librarian and afterwards for a short time Principal Librarian of the British Museum, bought this and the other busts before the Sale of the bankrupt sculptor held on May 12th, 1762, and generously presented them to the infant Museum, then not three years old. They were received on May 2nd, and the donor was evidently permitted by the creditors of the dead sculptor to make his own selection from the works on view in the studio; how well he chose, the photographs of the four Trinity models will show, but we may well regret that he omitted to buy the fifth, that of Lord Whitworth. The series are bracketed in the unique copy of the Sale Catalogue generously placed at my disposal by Mr and Mrs Finberg as Lots 77–81 on the third day's Sale with the note: “These were executed in Marble for Trinity College, Cambridge,” which shows that the Catalogue was printed some weeks before the Sale and advance buying permitted, since the whole of the busts bought by Dr Maty were in fact received at the Museum ten days before the Sale was held.